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Jeez – just a little more than 48 hours later, the Belgian Strong Golden is all but done! The airlock is only bubbling about once every 30 seconds and there’s a huge yeast cake on the bottom of the carboy. Tomorrow morning I’ll give the carboy a swirl (yea, I’m a swirler:) to [...]
The Belgian Strong Golden is off and running! The Wyeast 1388 has got to be one of the strangest yeasts I’ve ever brewed with. The ferment took off in a little over three hours and a large krausen head formed by 7:00 p.m. last evening. It was blowing CO2 like crazy! [...]
Looks like Stephen and I will be brewing an ale this Saturday we’ve been talking about for quite some time, a Belgian Strong Golden Ale. The classic commercial example of this ale is Duvel.
I had a hell of a time finding the Wyeast 1388 yeast, and finally found it at Williams Brewing. Probably [...]
