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[Mya]

I have to keg 10 gallons of Irish Red today. Once I'm done, then I can go Full Metal Refard.

be sure to save some liquid stupid for female houseguests

[Mindblock]

After lurking around and reading about this recipe for literally years, I finally brewed a 10 gallon batch of it with some local homebrew club friends..... OG was 1.093 going into the fermenter.....we fed it a nice healthy pitch of hungry WLP500 that had just finished off a Tripel and held the fermentation at 62F for 72 hours to reduce the banana flavors.....kicked the fermentation up by 2F per day and held it at 75F until fermentation finished in ~two weeks.....FG=1.013. WHAT A WONDERFUL BEER at just three weeks old.....the phenolics from WLP500 when fermented cool balance wonderfully with the orange, ginger, and coriander.....it will be hard to let this one age!!! Will likely try it with Saaz next time to see how the hop spiciness works with everything else that is going on in this beautifully complex beer. Thanks to all of you who contributed to the development of this recipe and kept the buzz about it alive on the forums.....

[Mya]

After lurking around and reading about this recipe for literally years, I finally brewed a 10 gallon batch of it with some local homebrew club friends.....

OG was 1.093 going into the fermenter.....we fed it a nice healthy pitch of hungry WLP500 that had just finished off a Tripel and held the fermentation at 62F for 72 hours to reduce the banana flavors.....kicked the fermentation up by 2F per day and held it at 75F until fermentation finished in ~two weeks.....FG=1.013.

WHAT A WONDERFUL BEER at just three weeks old.....the phenolics from WLP500 when fermented cool balance wonderfully with the orange, ginger, and coriander.....it will be hard to let this one age!!! Will likely try it with Saaz next time to see how the hop spiciness works with everything else that is going on in this beautifully complex beer.

Thanks to all of you who contributed to the development of this recipe and kept the buzz about it alive on the forums.....

this beer certainly delivers

[djinkc]

this beer certainly delivers

Hopefully, I'll see Alpha Male this weekend. He usually shows up at the STL event we're going to. His creation. Helluva guy.

[MtnBrewer]

Didn't know that. Thought this was Drew's beer. It's certainly becoming as infamous as Denny's Rye and CJ's JPA.

[Mindblock]

Not to hijack, but I have also found JPA to be an outstanding recipe to play around with. I have a batch that recently completed fermentation on some of the WLP500 that chewed through the batch of Liquid Stupid.....going to split the batch and dry hop half of it with Citra and the rest will get the recipe hop mix.

[Mya]

Not to hijack, but I have also found JPA to be an outstanding recipe to play around with. I have a batch that recently completed fermentation on some of the WLP500 that chewed through the batch of Liquid Stupid.....going to split the batch and dry hop half of it with Citra and the rest will get the recipe hop mix.

damn that sounds good , I like the Belgian IPA theme

[EWW]

The liquid stupid I dosed with my house sour culture is pretty much out of this world. If you have a batch that finishes a little high screw the champagne yeast and pitch the dregs of your 6-12 favorite sours. The bugs took it from around 1.020-1.007....great level of funk for a big beer. I didn't think this recipe could be approved on, but this big sour screams of blackberry and grapefruit sour/tart notes and a hint of barnyard....so happy I have 5 gallons of this!

[djinkc]

Didn't know that. Thought this was Drew's beer. It's certainly becoming as infamous as Denny's Rye and CJ's JPA.

I did get to see Alpha Male. Damn pear hugs...... should have worn a flak jacket. Man it was nice to see so many old friends in STL this weekend

[Mindblock]

damn that sounds good , I like the Belgian IPA theme

WLP500 works VERY nicely with the Belgian IPA theme.....I fermented cool to decrease banana and push phenolics.....tasted last evening before any dry hopping and I really liked the balance between CJ's malt and hops, and the phenolics from the WLP500.....will definitely need to fine tune this one.

[Genesee Ted]

So NHC is coming up here so I have been trying to do some planning for what to bring. I think I will be doing 2 collaboration beers and one on my own. The one that is my own is going to be a play on this. Liquid Stupid with Unibroue yeast, aged in a bourbon barrel and then blended withe some of the legendary Flanders that I still have left from the Greenboard brew and then all aged on cherries and perhaps a vanilla bean or two. I should be brewing this the weekend after next so that it has enough time to do its' thing

[Alpha Male]

Well we just kegged the last of the 1.5 bbl Mattingly batch. Brewed on the 4th of July weekend in 2010. Very mead like and smooth. Very drinkablle and dangerous. Lost my brewing mojo. This may give me the inspiration to restart again.

Jeff

[Thirsty]

I drank a bottle of my first batch the other day that I brewed almost 7 years ago. My second batch was about 4 years ago. I think its time to brew again. I am doing a Dubbel Stoopid. Figured it would be a good Christmas beer. For a 15 gallon boil I am doing 25# belg pils 2# belg munich 1# caramunich 1# aromatic 1# spec b 1# D45 candi syrup 2# corn sugar 3# orange blossom honey at knockout 4oz chech saaz The normal dosing of ginger coriander and orange peel Ardennes at 66 then ramp to 75 after week 1.075 wort I think that should make a damn tasty beer. It has been awhile since I read the old greenboard LS thread, and I didnt read all of this one, but has anyone done this approach to a Dubbel? Starter is on the stirplate, mashing thursday morn 10/10

[StankDelicious]

I salute you, sir.

[Thirsty]

Overshot my OG by about 10 points, so I wound up with a pretty big dubbel. Took over 2 months to ferment out, and I got it down to 1.016. In the keg and cleared now. And it is fantastic! Glad I did this one. Not quite as big as the original, so may not need quite as long for maturing, but nonetheless, I will probably leave keg#2 alone for quite awhile. I may enter this into a xmas specialty category to see how it does.  

Edited by Thirsty, 27 January 2014 - 10:00 AM.