Ok thanks yooper. I have used it once but not in that quantity. Most of the info I found online said up to 10% would be okay but I will take your advice and back off some. I wanted to get away from caramel malt for this recipie and I wanted to try to balance the hop bitterness ( for my family...
Next week I plan to try my first "hopbursted" IPA next week and I can't wait. I would welcome advice on hop schdeule and general recipie advice. I am going for that tropical citrusy hop aroma/flavor bomb without enough IBUs to make my family cry. I still have some experimental "lemon drop" hops...
Thanks for the info ill pick up some belgian bottles, I don't want any bombs after all the time spent fermenting, that would be a crime against beerkind everywhere!
I am ready to bottle my first belgian strong ale and I have another fermenting away. Do I have to use belgian style bottles with corks and a cage for carbonation purposes or is that just tradition? Will normal beer bottles or the swing tops work okay without the possiblity of bottle bombs? The...
Everything you said makes sense, ill wait till I have expanded my equipment for all grain. Ill keep experimenting with belgian strong ales for practice!
I just brewed my second belgian strong ale yesterday from Beer Captured. It called for 8.25 pounds of extra light LME and 12 oz of Belgian Candi sugar. Rather than wasting the left over extract and sugars we tossed them in to raise the abv a little more. My dad wanted to add some toasted oats...
I just brewed my second belgian strong ale yesterday from Beer Captured. It called for 8.25 pounds of extra light LME and 12 oz of Belgian Candi sugar. Rather than wasting the left over extract and sugars we tossed them in to raise the abv a little more. My dad wanted to add some toasted oats...
I'm not so sure for the dark belgians but I brewed a batch of moderately hoppy golden belgian strong ale. It needs to be bottled but so far its great. A brew calculator estimated the IBUs at 54.
I used 1 oz 60min additions of stryian goldings and german smaragd, then 1/2 oz, 15 and 5 min...
I am getting ready to carb a batch of a hoppy golden belgain I made with mosaic, hallertau, stryian goldings and smaragd hops. So far it has good depth of hop flavor without so much that you can't taste the belgian yeast. I really like hkw the tropical citrus of the mosaic goes with the yeasty...
I found the coarse adjustment screw for the small kenmoore freezer I just bought from a garage sale but the shelves seem to be part of the cooling system. There are small silver pipes comming in from the back and they form the inside of the three shelves with a wire rack over them. Can I...