Old Flemish Brown

by MrDave @ 09, Dec 2006
Made this up more or less to the destructions. They basically say "Add this much white sugar and that much water. Wait a week. Bottle beer." Dissolved the requisite amount of sugar in a small saucepan and tried to invert it with a few drops of lemon juice. Not too sure how much success I had there. The stock yeast is pretty boring. It tastes like a sweet, less than fabulous kit beer. Mine turned out to be around 7% and was fermented fairly warm which is good for esters, but it seems that I've ended up with a few higher alcohols too. Its certainly a good winter warmer if a little boring. I'd try it again with a decent Belgian liquid yeast strain like WY3787.