Leffe Blonde clone: experience of using cloves and vanilla?

[Clint]

Leave it at least another week. You don't need any more yeast.

 

[Mash Monster]

I agree leave it another week and leave well alone mine dropped down to 1.006 so it may still have a little way to go, anyway you are currently around the 6% + so all good

 

[jambop]

Why anybody would want to make Leffe Blonde is a mystery to me it is pish in a bottle. A lot of sugary filtred and carbonated crap.

 

[Clint]

What do you like?

 

[Ross1974]

Thanks. I was hoping you'd say that, although I do have some more belgian yeast here, I planned on keeping that for the next lot.

 

[Ross1974]

Why anybody would want to make Leffe Blonde is a mystery to me it is pish in a bottle. A lot of sugary filtred and carbonated ****.

Thanks for your valuable input.

 

[jambop]

What do you like?

It is all about expectation I suppose BUT if I could not make beer that was better than Leffe blonde I would not bother. Leffe is a name in cheap strong beer and nothing more. I would take any decent bottled British beer over Leffe blonde any day of the week. If I want drinks that taste of cloves and corriander I can go and buy cough medicine. As a Scot living in France I am forced to say that you living in the UK do not know how well you are placed to get decent beer and by that I do not mean European beers where abv dictates how good a beer is... Carlsberg Special anybody
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as an example of what I am talking about
Leffe Blonde @ 6.6% costs as little as €2.53/L
Grimbergen @ 6.7% €3.20 /L
Affligem @ 6.7% €3.20/L

Cheap crap! how cheap? Well you can have1664 or Heineken @ 5% for about the same cost €3.01 and €3.20 and that stuff is genuine pish in a bottle

 

[Clint]

But then if you don't like cloves you can choose flowers and if you don't like that you can have pineapple, mango or citrus or spice...or variations on a theme via hops or yeast or both.
Is it Leffe you don't like or Belgian type beers in general?
I wasn't sure about some styles until I brewed saison. This changed my mind totally.
Perhaps you should try a sour?

 

[Rodcx500z]

Why anybody would want to make Leffe Blonde is a mystery to me it is pish in a bottle. A lot of sugary filtred and carbonated ****.

How very dare you i quite like Leffe blonde and bruin, France eh it's only there so folks can drive to Italy the home of proper beer

 

[jambop]

How very dare you i quite like Leffe blonde and bruin, France eh it's only there so folks can drive to Italy the home of proper beer

True story... Auchan in Pau had an offer on Leffe Blonde buy one pack of 12 x 33cl get the other 50% off. I bought two cases, not for the beer inside the bottle as such although it could be termed a bonus ? No I wanted the bottles and if I had bought a pack of 24 empty 33 cl bottles from the HBS it would have been €12.95 plus P&P so you could say Leffe won the day as a twin pack was €19 about the same cost as the empties

 

[tondy79]

Thanks. I was hoping you'd say that, although I do have some more belgian yeast here, I planned on keeping that for the next lot.

Hey @Ross1974 how did this turn out in the end, or is it still too early to tell?

Cheers!