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so i recently picked up The Everything Homebrewing Book its been a good read so far and come acrossed some interesting recipes too

one actually tells u how to use Brettanomyces suggesting to give 9 months to drink suppossed to give a taste thats "off kilter" adding earthy,spicy,pineaple/fruity flavors to the beer but warns to be very careful unless u want all ur beer to be brett c.

also another one that takes a year to make. amps up abv by continusly feeding it sugar thru out the fermentation eveytime it slows down and a lil more sugar and wine yeast also using different types of sugar each feeding too. at 23%abv this stuff is would pack a punch.


anyways ive come a long way since a bought that little brown keg planning out my next recipe coming up here in the next week so just goota decide what to do next????


by the way anyone use Brewers Friend for recipe calculation? i used it for last batch and even tho i just bottled it the flat beer tastes a lil more bitter than i was expecting maybe this could mellow out tho after a month or so

Brett C tastes like hay and pinapple to me. They are right to warn you about it because if it goes wild it's hard to get rid of. It lives somewhere in my house, and I get 2-3 beers infected with it every summer. The good thing is that I actually like Brett C beers, and if it's not an all brett beer you can just drink them early while the brett flavors are still "mellow" and it's only a little bit funky.

If you want to know what other stronger varieties of brett taste like when aged, try an Orval Trappist beer (look for bowling pin shaped bottle). That will taste like a blanket covered with horse sweat, and shoe leather. (it is an acquired taste LOL).

cant imagine id like the taste of horse sweat and shoe leather..... i dont think i coud even acquire a taste like that

mashani wrote:Brett C tastes like hay and pinapple to me. They are right to warn you about it because if it goes wild it's hard to get rid of. It lives somewhere in my house, and I get 2-3 beers infected with it every summer. The good thing is that I actually like Brett C beers, and if it's not an all brett beer you can just drink them early while the brett flavors are still "mellow" and it's only a little bit funky.

If you want to know what other stronger varieties of brett taste like when aged, try an Orval Trappist beer (look for bowling pin shaped bottle). That will taste like a blanket covered with horse sweat, and shoe leather. (it is an acquired taste LOL).

with a taste profile like that why would you want to?

jimjohson wrote:

mashani wrote:Brett C tastes like hay and pinapple to me. They are right to warn you about it because if it goes wild it's hard to get rid of. It lives somewhere in my house, and I get 2-3 beers infected with it every summer. The good thing is that I actually like Brett C beers, and if it's not an all brett beer you can just drink them early while the brett flavors are still "mellow" and it's only a little bit funky.

If you want to know what other stronger varieties of brett taste like when aged, try an Orval Trappist beer (look for bowling pin shaped bottle). That will taste like a blanket covered with horse sweat, and shoe leather. (it is an acquired taste LOL).

with a taste profile like that why would you want to?

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to go to a local farm and lick one of the horses?

Chuck N wrote:Wouldn't it just be cheaper to go to a local farm and lick one of the horses?

Maybe in addition to a Borg member named 'myhorselikesbeer' we'd have one named 'myhorsetasteslikebeer'.

Chuck N wrote:

jimjohson wrote:

mashani wrote:Brett C tastes like hay and pinapple to me. They are right to warn you about it because if it goes wild it's hard to get rid of. It lives somewhere in my house, and I get 2-3 beers infected with it every summer. The good thing is that I actually like Brett C beers, and if it's not an all brett beer you can just drink them early while the brett flavors are still "mellow" and it's only a little bit funky.

If you want to know what other stronger varieties of brett taste like when aged, try an Orval Trappist beer (look for bowling pin shaped bottle). That will taste like a blanket covered with horse sweat, and shoe leather. (it is an acquired taste LOL).

with a taste profile like that why would you want to?

Wouldn't it just be cheaper to go to a local farm and lick one of the horses?

there is app for that