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This is interesting 🧐 do different factors influence the final carbonation of the beer other than the actual sugar content added?

The bottles are mcewans champion bottles, they weight about 305g each. Wouldn’t want any gushers though, isn’t 3 volumes a risk of this? Btw, my Belgian quad is 12.5% and that’s in 500ml bottles too 😂😂

Yeah it’s confusing though as 1.9-2.4 is quite low for a Belgian, I’m sure that’s been put in wrong! If you Google carbonation for a tripel it says 2.4-3 so that’s quite a bit higher. I just wanted other brewers experience on the matter.

I’m scratching my head with how much sugar per 500ml bottle I should be adding for my 10% Belgian tripel. I’ll be using cbc-1 bottling yeast and can’t decide whether to just add a carb drop 3.3g per bottle or to add loose sugar at a greater amount, like 4g or something. It’s a 28 litre batch...

Thanks so much guys, I’m worrying too much!

I used half of the pack a few weeks back and I’ve kept it stored in the fridge with a clip on (as in the picture). I need some cbc-1 in a couple of weeks when I bottle my Belgian tripel, would I do better just buying a new unopened pack or is this opened pack still safe to use? I don’t want to...

I just have an InfuSsion mash tun, 3 vessel set up so no fancy grainfather for me lol. I was thinking of adding the 300g corn flakes to the recipe too but dunno if it will add anything

This is my recipe so far, I’m aiming for a Belgian golden strong(ish) I got hold of another couple of kg of pale malt so now have 4.5kg. I have the wheat malt so decided to use it up.

This brewday thread looks interesting! I’ve done a bit of searching for corn flakes without all the salt and it’s difficult BUT I found one brand that looks good. Anyone have any thoughts on the other ingredients in these corn flakes?

Yah but 11 litres isn’t worth my time or energy, I’m after around 24L

I’ve currently only got about 2.5kg pale ale malt left and no plans to buy any more this side of Xmas. I’ve been doing allot of reading up about unusual brewing adjuncts some people have tried with good results. These are things like: Porridge oats Cornflakes Shredded wheat Basmati rice The list...

That’s almost poetic until you start visioning it

I’ll assume lime juice

That’s a nice idea and I’ve got lots of citric acid. I’ll do a little experimenting. Cheers 🍻

Octupel, it’s the new Belgian, quad is so last year

I’m properly impressed with that bottling yeast. The instructions were ridiculously complicated to get to grips with. In the end I just did what I felt best and it worked perfect

Aye it is indeed the very same! It carbed fine and zero bottle bombs. I’ve since re done the same recipe using m41 yeast and I got 97% attenuation giving me 12.6% abv 🤣

After a good few years of brewing I’ve never really come across this before. I shouldn’t have used the yeast that I did, it was only good for 75% atn. I didn’t mash too high it was 65c Possibly more down to the yeast, Safale t-58

I brewed a Belgian quad a few months back and bottled it once it was done. The issue I had with it was that unfermentable sugars were created in the mash plus the wrong yeast was used and it just didn’t attenuate as it should have- leaving it very sweet. I bottled it and used cbc1 bottling...

Just want peoples thoughts on this recipe, I’m somewhat winging it but my main thoughts are trying to get the balance right between sweetness/bitterness. Cheers 🍻