What are you brewing today?

[Bubbles]

Yeah I saw some comments online about adding sugar later to help with the yeast stress. I'm hoping that a big 1.7L starter of wlp570 will be able to take the stress. Would be a real fun one to compare and contrast with a small batch...

That barleywine sounds ace. Planning to do one over the summer, so will have to compare notes

Check out the Jamil podcast on belgian golden strong. Lots of detail there.

If you're doing the barleywine over the summer, remember to ferment as cool as you can, to keep the hot alcohols at bay.

[Bubbles]

Contemplating putting together a small 1gallon mead tomorrow.

Love doing the small batches.. Are putting any fruit or spices in the mead?

Gonna basically do the JOAM mead but less ghetto so orange and some spices.

Always liked the sound of that recipe, it's on the to-do list.

Check out my sticky on mead resources.

[molc]

Yup using his recipe from the podcast along with the same temperature profile with my brewpi setup

[Bubbles]

Lovely stuff. I've not used wlp570, but i've used wlp550 and thought it would be great in a belgian golden strong. Ferments like a beast.