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I'd say your idea of brewing you next pale with tesco ashbeck water is a good shout. I think if you you can rule out water then a low level contamination seems like a likely candidate. Although I would always expect that to get worse or more noticeable as the batch ages. Another thought: What...

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I think it's quite a simple recipe. If I recall correctly la chouffe is just pilsner malt and sugar. I'd go 10—15% sugar. 10 grams of crushed corriander seed at the end of the boil. I'd bitter with some of the goldings and then a mix of goldings and saaz say 15 mins from the end of the boil...

Sounds good. What's your recipe for le Chouffe?

If you're brewing today I'd go with the M31 Tripel out of those and keep the temps low(ish) for the first couple of days then ramp or allow to free rise after that. If you can wait, the Ardennes strain is the Chouffe yeast. If using dried the MJ French saison yeast would do a good job at...

The best dried English ale strain I've used is, hands down, Lallemand London ESB. It doesn't flocculate well and is a low attenuator but the flavour profile is ace. I know you're mainly concerned with American and English strains but I'm a big an of the MJ Witbier (M21) yeast. Their French...

Finally got round to using T-58 in a batch the other weekend. Fermentation seems to be complete so thought I would report back with my initial impressions/ findings. I pitched 1.5 packets (16.5g) rehydrated into 18L of 1080 wort. This was the Brewdog Dogma recipe so very heavy/complex malt...

Pretty sure that will be your overnight mash.

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I must have misread. I think it was this thread but looking back now the guy is speculatively suggesting that BE256 is the De Ranke strain, rather than it being blended with something else. Apologies...

I was just reading on a hbt thread that de ranke blend t58 with be256. I know it's all hearsay but I could see the sense to that as it's a super attenuator and supposedly very low ester/non phenolic. Might need to give that mix a go.

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