Recent content by lupulos

yep, that's what i did. deeelish! this is one of my favs and one of only a couple beers I have attempted to brew twice.

well, the batch I made back in february is still sitting in a carboy, discovered it has a bio-film of some sort on it today so I pulled a sample- tastes great. wonder what's growing on it.

This is what mine looks like after two years! Worth saving.

what a great beer! reminds me I have one in my cellar from two years ago. the airlock blew at 4am a couple weeks before my two year old was born. still finding dried yeast from that blowout. that sucker continued to bubble and expel crap from the blowoff for weeks! I'm going to make it again...

I've never had the Raddieuse before, the local bottle shop only has the blond and a brown...but last night I had a Kwak for the first time and I was very surprised how similar it tasted to this recipe. I have two swing-top quarts of this and a couple 22s left, it's making me anxious!

I never did report back on this brew (with the yeastie blowout) but it turned out fantastic! It's a big hit. Thanks for the recipe. I'll update with a photo later.

Hrm, good to know; I figured it would improve with some longer conditioning, but if the improvement is merely marginal after 6 months I might go ahead and bottle it earlier! cheers

Uggh that sucks! Does it have something growing on it? Picture? I'm going to leave mine in the secondary for another 3 weeks- I'll probably put it in the garage in one week, where the temperature is about 45 f. (think roughly 7* C)

Day 14- I replaced the blowoff tube with an airlock yesterday, the bubbling has slowed to once every 7 seconds. the Krausen still looks pretty beefy. edit: Day 18 racked to a secondary and took a sample- FG 1.009 Tastes good, is the right color.

I'm not sure that I understand the recipe- you mash with 8.4 gallons of water, then drain the MT add 5.2 gallons for 45 minutes at 170 then use another 3.2 gallons? 16.8 gallons total water used before boil seems a lot! Also, 3 packs of Wyeast seems like overkill is it necessary? Congrats on...

Yeah, as of this morning (day 11) the blow-off hose was bubbling away...krausen intact. Geez this yeast is something else!

Yes, it is! It's the first time I've blown an airlock on my 6.5 gallon glass primary- bad combination of high volume and a crazy voracious yeast...oh well I got the opportunity to rig my first blowoff (at 4am) and it works pretty well. Rigging might be an exaggeration- my siphon hose fit nicely...

I brewed this recipe Sunday (two days ago), except I added another ounce of hallertauer and used turbinado instead of belgian candy sugar. I was a little confused about the volumes- mash with 17 quarts for roughly 13 lbs of grain, and sparge with another 17 quarts was a bit more than I'm used...

I've been drinking this for a week it's delicious. I left it in a secondary for about six weeks.

Yeah, I have to say that I loved it, when I could use it. And customer service was prompt with several responses. They even provided me a new serial number, and told me that the "next" button would stay gray unless a valid serial number/user name is entered. No dice; apparently they gave up on...