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I have also read that Brett C does a better job of fermenting dehydrated fruit, so would it be better to add them to secondary? How long should it sit in secondary with the Brett? I have never used it before?

This is one of my favorite beers, but at $25 a bottle if you can find it in Canada I'm thinking I could at least attempt a clone and see if I can't do something close. Here's the description: This is described as a Belgian style ale brewed with Papaya and Mango and aged in Grand Marnier...

no worries, wasn't trying to be defensive. If it wasn't yeast it was definitely something. I have read that if you combine two yeasts one tends to overpower the other and that they don't work in harmony, would anyone know what kind of battle might be going on in there between whatever is causing...

well it cooled outside without ever removing the lid from the boiler and transferred straight into a freshly sanitized primary and covered. sat for 30h at 19 degrees C. I'm not saying sanitation isn't a factor, but I'm quite aggressive with my sanitation.

here's a photo of the wort about 10 minutes after i pitched the wyeast. and the unibroue starter that's carbonated

no. Both yeasts were in starters. When I woke up this morning I took the lid off of the Tripel and it LOOKED like a beer in full fermentation, and smelled sour/alcoholic... so I feared it had begun fermenting spontaneously (I have done a spontaneous fermentation before with a coffee-wine, but...

I brewed 'Tripel Round the World' from the Extreme brewing book on Sunday, a 10L batch with OG of 1.090. I made a 1.2L starter for a Wyeast 1214 which was a little dated (9 months), but also ran to get a Trappist High Gravity in case the 1214 showed no activity, and made a starter with that. The...

Thanks for all the advice. I feel like I'm learning from scratch again with my first lager after numerous ales. I think I'm going to attempt a 1 gallon batch, save some ingredients, pitch into half the batch and add the remainder when there's visible fermentation. No point in going big if I'm...

I'm brewing an imperial pilsner tonight (as per Extreme Brewing book). I have a slap pack of Pilsen lager but since the OG will be up around 1.090 my concern is that my pitch rate will be insufficient. This is what I was thinking of trying and I wanted some advice. I was going to brew it (19L)...

about to make a peppercorn rye bock today and instructions say to add 1 tsp green peppercorn and one tsp black peppercorn (milled) at flameout. It's brew day and needing some timely advice on whether to just throw the peppercorn into the wort (instructions don't call for grain bag), hoping they...

I'm about to attempt my first two lagers utilizing Sam calagione's Extreme Brewing recipes, but I have a couple questions the book does not answer. 1) when adding milled peppercorn to my rye bock, do they go into a grain bag, or do you throw them directly into the wort? Will Peppercorns sink...

this was my concern. I've fiddled a little with recreating the spice mixture, and may just settle for an approximation, but thought it would be a nice authentic touch. I'm ok with a little bit of off-putting flavour, but it's the chemicals that concern me. Sounds like it wouldn't be worth it.

I'm wondering how potentially stupid or disastrous an idea this is. I've long been a fan of kretek (clove cigarettes from indonesia), and was thinking of adding a hint of flavour into an otherwise basic stout. What are the potential consequences of emptying 2 cigarettes into a steeper and...

I have spoken with a few people at the brewing supply stores around town and they all advise me against adding the flavour too late in the process and say the sooner it gets in there, the more depth the flavour will have. But I have also read the later it is added the more prominent the...

I'm relatively new to home-brewing and am primarily interested in using home-brewing kits and then changing their flavours, as opposed to boiling on my own (perhaps some day I'll get there), but I'm just struggling to find a bit of information that would make me more confident in this whole...