My first saison – a French farmhouse ale. As with so may of these French/Belgiany beers, it’s the yeast that makes all the difference. I used a White Labs liquid yeast for this one. I used my technique of just not bothering to add the extra sugar, keeping this beer down below 6% abv. Just…
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This is a Belgian Dubbel grain-bill, but without the extra sugar. I’m calling it a patersbier (the beer normally reserved for use in the monastery and not sold to the public). Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.047 SG Original Gravity: 1.050 SG Final Gravity: 1.011 SG ABV: 5.2 % IBU: 20 IBU Colour: 22 EBC BU:GU Ratio: 0.42 Mash…
Belgian beers are a bit of a passion of mine. My first foray into ‘proper beer’ was my mate from the south of Holland. He grew up on Belgian beers and one day he said “Here, try this!” It was a Duvel. It was a lot stronger and more bitter than what I was used…
I’ve been brewing this beer off and on over the years trying to get it right. My mate is from Holland and was brought up on this beer, so it was something we tried to brew right from the earliest days of malt extract and tiny pots on the stove-top. Most of our efforts were…