This is one I've been thinking about doing for a while - a mild ale, treated like an english mild, but brewed with exclusively belgian malts and fermented with a belgian yeast. I realize there is already something similar, called patersbier, but I think it's a little different than what I'm doing. Maybe not, reliable information on the beer seems to be pretty scarce. Anyway, brewed mine up today, so we'll see how it comes out in a week or two.
The recipe ended up as:
6# Pilsener
8 oz Caramunich
6 oz Special B
4 oz Biscuit
1 oz of 3% Liberty hops for 60 minutes.
I wanted to use WLP500, but MDHB was out, so I went with WLP550. Mashed at 155 for 60 minutes, put a total of 6 gallons into the kettle (had to end the runoff early, as I overestimated my water). Ended up with a little over 5 gallons and an OG of 1.044 - about 80% efficiency, which sucked. I've been running with a 75% efficiency assumption, but I keep getting 77-78, so I may have to just adjust to that instead. Still, even at 1.044, it's passable as a mild. Hopefully it'll taste good!
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