Kölsch recipe suggestions

jceg316 said:

Really pleased you liked it! I find I have no trouble with fermentis lager yeasts brewed at ale temps (although I've not used the Swiss style yet), never tried the Calilager before. MJs yeast can be really hit or miss I find.

I'll have to try this with carablonde one day and see how it comes out.

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MyQul said:

I've started tucking in already (2 days conditioning) as I haven't anything else to drink. A bit green but non the less really nice. I think the MJ Calilager yeast would be good for German style lager recipes fermented at ale temps as it is malt forward, so good for things like Marzens/Oktoberfests

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jceg316 said:

Perhaps the next steam beer/hoppy lager I make I'll try out this yeast.

On a bit of a different note, have you tried the MJ saison yeasts at all? I want to brew a saison sometime soon and was wondering about their French or Belgian ones. I have a batch with a White Labs saison yeast, but the bottles are getting to months old now, I'm not sure how viable the yeast is anymore.

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MyQul said:

I've never made a saison and only ever tried one saison beer (a rye saison), so have never tried the MJ saison yeast. If you have some WL saison yeast in a batch of beer just culture it up like culturing up a commercial beer. Even better, if your planning to have a little session on the saisons just save the dregs from each bottle in a sanised jar, kept in th fridge then just make a starter with the yeast. It should be fine (or at most you should only need two steps)

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jceg316 said:

I do have a few bottles of it. Do you think it would be alright even after 6 months sitting in a bottle?

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jceg316 said:

On a bit of a different note, have you tried the MJ saison yeasts at all? I want to brew a saison sometime soon and was wondering about their French or Belgian ones. I have a batch with a White Labs saison yeast, but the bottles are getting to months old now, I'm not sure how viable the yeast is anymore.

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jceg316 said:

Really pleased you liked it! I find I have no trouble with fermentis lager yeasts brewed at ale temps (although I've not used the Swiss style yet), never tried the Calilager before. MJs yeast can be really hit or miss I find.

I'll have to try this with carablonde one day and see how it comes out.

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MyQul said:

I'm really enjoying this beer (Mrs MQ liked it too and she normally only drinks wine). It's a shame I only made 7 (and a 330ml) bottles of it. I'm definately going to make it again. The only thing I'm going to change is to lighten the body as it's a bit heavy and 'ale-y'. So I'm either going to add some corn flakes/flaked maize (a la gunge) or use a yeast that's not as malty - I'm thinking notty fermented low (14C)

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