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As always, playing around with ideas for future brews.
Depending on when I can brew it, and if it is still reasonably warm maybe in early December, I was toying with the idea of a Belgian Dubbel, probably on the lower end of the alcohol for the style. When coming across recipes, I am seeing a lot of Carafa and Special B. These are things I have not used in the past. For those of you that have, how do they compare with Crystal or in some cases Chocolate malt? I assume these are being used for a specific reason and that is why Crystal is not in most of these recipes.
Also, if any of you have brewed this style, did you like a particular yeast that I can get the equivalent from my homebrew store that sells White Labs?
I tried making a Single a couple of times before. I think I got close to what I wanted, but I still think I need to change the yeast out in the future as the Ardennes was more for the high alcohol beers, I was hoping to get a little more character out of the yeast in the future. I probably just needed to go hotter earlier, but that is harder to do for me in the winter.
Depending on when I can brew it, and if it is still reasonably warm maybe in early December, I was toying with the idea of a Belgian Dubbel, probably on the lower end of the alcohol for the style. When coming across recipes, I am seeing a lot of Carafa and Special B. These are things I have not used in the past. For those of you that have, how do they compare with Crystal or in some cases Chocolate malt? I assume these are being used for a specific reason and that is why Crystal is not in most of these recipes.
Also, if any of you have brewed this style, did you like a particular yeast that I can get the equivalent from my homebrew store that sells White Labs?
I tried making a Single a couple of times before. I think I got close to what I wanted, but I still think I need to change the yeast out in the future as the Ardennes was more for the high alcohol beers, I was hoping to get a little more character out of the yeast in the future. I probably just needed to go hotter earlier, but that is harder to do for me in the winter.