I just brewed an amber/ESB with 1469 and I was shocked at what the LHBS was charging... $15.99! I bit the bullet anyway because I do love what this strain offers. Anyway, I'm going to harvest and use it again to recoup my costs, and I'm considering something off style. Purists cover your eyes...
I've never used domestic chocolate malt, so I don't have a reference point for how 350 tastes compared with a UK 450. That said and fwiw, if it were me brewing a porter and I had initially intended to use 5% chocolate at 450 srm, I'd probably bump it up to 6% with 350. There's nothing more...
Brewing an American wheat kitchen sinker with what I had on hand, while sipping on the stout that came before it.
18C/65F outside and snow on the ground. Crazy.
I'm planning an American honey wheat beer and I have some T-58 on hand. My inclination would be to go buy another strain for this and use the T-58 in a German wheat or Belgian. But it's what I got. My question for the folks who have used this strain: do you think T-58 in the following recipe...