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[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Personally find that beerguerva's dark candi sugar adds nice notes of plum but agree with others doubles and dark belgian strongs have the best taste for me.

Biscuit and special b are the most unique crystal malt ive ever used.

BeerGuevara are out of Special B at the moment .. I think want to add that to my double recipe.. so I'll wait till that's back in stock, then buy it and brew my double.. somme get a 25kgs Maris Otter too.. I like my stouts, a lot of stout recipes call for Maris Otter .. possibly brew some English style bitters and brown ales with that too..

[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

https://www.beerplus.co.za/product/s...w-1kg/2657/166

Ive used this came out same same, but if you are not in a hurry keep it authentic and get the special B

[PaBz0r Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PaBz0r]

Yeast expiry date has forced my hand, stirring up WLP530 Abbey Ale, I have Carabelge I need to use, so was thinking Pils/Maris Otter/Caramunich II/Carabelge

[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

BeerGuevara are out of Special B at the moment .. I think want to add that to my double recipe.. so I'll wait till that's back in stock, then buy it and brew my double.. somme get a 25kgs Maris Otter too.. I like my stouts, a lot of stout recipes call for Maris Otter .. possibly brew some English style bitters and brown ales with that too..

Many stores pta side discontinuing it I got 5kg to store for "special" beeers

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

You could make your own roasted malts. I have done it many times.

In a pot add 1kg uncrushed pale malt.

Add enough water to just cover the grains.

Heat the mixture to 68C – 70C for one hour.

Preheat oven to 120C. (A thermofan oven is prefered)

Drain the grains and spread on baking tray. Less than 2 cm deep.

Place tray in oven for about 2 hours, till grains are dry. Stir the malts evey 20 - 30 min

When grains are dry you should have a light crystal malt around 25 EBC.

Heat oven to 180C.

15 minutes in oven gives a light medium crystal malt of about 80 EBC

30 minutes in oven gives a medium crystal malt of about 160 EBC

60 minutes in oven gives a dark crystal malt of about 300 EBC

[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

This very special Belgian dark malt, is obtained through specific double roasting process. This malt can be used to produce a deep red to dark brown-black colour and full body in your homebrew. With unique flavour and aroma Special B adds colour and imparts a rich malty taste with hints of nut, plum and raisin-like flavour. A great substitute for Chocolate and Black malt if bitterness is not desired. Subtle in abbey ales, dubbels, porters, brown ales, and doppelbocks.

Gonna need a few tries to get this right. It isnt like normal crystal malt. It is indeed a very special belgium malt.

Without it and biscuit I wouldnt even attempt a dubbel.

But thanks for explaining the process I want to attempt making my own for a type of smash ale with all three types of crystal malt you listed above, should be fun

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

https://www.beerplus.co.za/product/s...w-1kg/2657/166

Ive used this came out same same, but if you are not in a hurry keep it authentic and get the special B

Thx.. will see how desperate I get closer to Double brew day.. for now I have the Duvel Tripel Hop clone, bottled this morning. I cold crashed it for 4 days without gelatine, the added gelatine to the bottling bucket (as I did with my SAPA).. anyway quick summary of the SGs .. expected OG 1.088 - actual 1.084 THEN !! apparent attenuation for the HG Trappist is 75 - 80%, using 80% calcs to 1.018 - which I knew was not going to happen and once done ended up at 1.002 .. 97.6% attenuation, now at a lovely 10.7 % abv without priming sugar - so lets guess 11%+ entering the Trappist Quad range .. Duvel Quad Hop.
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[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

@BeerHolic (reply w Quote not working) .. Thx for that explanation but tbh will rather wait for Special B to arrive, else Special W .. I don't have an oven anyway .
I have a convection microwave - but this will take some experimenting to get the EBC's right .. though good to know that something like this can be done at home .. if need be.

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This very special Belgian dark malt, is obtained through specific double roasting process. This malt can be used to produce a deep red to dark brown-black colour and full body in your homebrew. With unique flavour and aroma Special B adds colour and imparts a rich malty taste with hints of nut, plum and raisin-like flavour. A great substitute for Chocolate and Black malt if bitterness is not desired. Subtle in abbey ales, dubbels, porters, brown ales, and doppelbocks.

Gonna need a few tries to get this right. It isnt like normal crystal malt. It is indeed a very special belgium malt.

Without it and biscuit I wouldnt even attempt a dubbel.

But thanks for explaining the process I want to attempt making my own for a type of smash ale with all three types of crystal malt you listed above, should be fun

What I'm looking for..

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

WoW, 11% ...she's a keeper

Try keep a few for a few years.

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Duvel brewery claim they do a 2 week carbing period of 24C, then store away for 6 weeks for conditioning .. think at 5C before dispatching for sale.. so yea .. I'll be hiding them away hoping to forget about them for the mean time..

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Yea, i suppose since its "hoppy" you want to drink it within those times, but keep 1 or 2 for a year+ to see how the hops and high abv treat each other

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Yea, i suppose since its "hoppy" you want to drink it within those times, but keep 1 or 2 for a year+ to see how the hops and high abv treat each other

Yes .. will keep it for long.. it's not a beer that you can drink a lot of at once anyway..

[jannieverjaar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jannieverjaar]

Lol having a six pack at a go of a 11% beer could end badly

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[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

I'll be brewing this one tomorrow .. I've got 2kgs of 'fragrant' rice and planning to boil it all up when I start the strike water batch, then add it to the the mash when I can 'match' the rice and mash water temps.. will need to do some calibration thinking there.
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[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

I'll be brewing this one tomorrow .. I've got 2kgs of 'fragrant' rice and planning to boil it all up when I start the strike water batch, then add it to the the mash when I can 'match' the rice and mash water temps.. will need to do some calibration thinking there.
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Careful with your rice selection, make sure its rice and not this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOfOCJtiig