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I thought it was a little in-joke because it was fermented cool with an ale yeast as opposed to warm with a lager yeast. I say WAS because who the **** knows now.

classic TWB bumpkins!

get an old fridge and temp control unit, then you can brew whatever you like and the yeasties will love you for it.

8 - Earle - 'bad santa' christmas spiced saison Classic saison with subtle but present spices, very nicely put together, bravo

24 - Randai - Tooheys 1922 Bulk/xxx Black with red highlights and white creamy head. Subtle aroma of grain and lightly roasted coffee. Clean as a whistle. Goes down very easily with some lacing and a persistent head despite medium carbonation. I just spent 20mins ransacking the house trying...

23 - Winkle - black buckwheat witbiere Black with slightly hazy red highlights, light pepper and light roast, maybe some zest in the nose but slight berries in the flavour, clean finish more or less. Delicate and inherently drinkable beer, two thumbs up.

3 - mad Pierre - red rye saison Carbonation was explosive which brought all the sediment into suspension, spicy, phenolic, dry-ish but with a sticky sweet finish possibly from the rye. Actually a pretty enjoyable beer, shared it with my father in law who is a wine buff and he also liked it.

10 - Ciderman - Tassie wild dark saison thing Sorry for the listed notes but to sum it up I'm tasting sweet & sour dark fruit chocolate and it's really nice. I must also add that it had a creamy head that lasted all the way down the glass. Often rare with bugged beers

11 - Insensate - zombie dust knockoff Looks the part, deep amber colour with a lasting white head, I'm struggling to pin the aroma but it's deep and pleasant kinda fruity/malty with something subtle I can only describe as smoke. Flavour is more like ripe tropical fruits and clean slightly sweet...

17 - Zorco - mega multi strain Belgian blonde thing Highish carbonation, good head retention, laced nicely down the glass. I'm getting a peppery yeast profile and some light floral thing going on in the aroma. Taste is spicy and it has a kind of sweetness that is cut by a sharp dry finish. I...

2 Mad Pierre's hoppy saison Light fluffy head on this one, with some zesty hops and a bit of pepper in there, malt wise it tastes wheaty and has a dry peppery citrusy finish. Quite moreish. Good one!

15 - Benken25 - random cube saison Estery / with some spice, a bit of sweet malt but a dry finish. I'm enjoying this "guess the wort" game. Honesty to me it tastes and looks a bit like a pumpkin ale. Worked out well Ben!

Rival Sons - Hollow Bones I stumbled across this band recently, it's bluesy rock with a bit of psych and soul thrown in. The singer is quite good. https://rival-sons.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-bones

it's going to be dark red with that load of spec malts. Ditch the chocolate. IMO ditch them all and go with 300g Caraaroma and 50g carafa 3. Also you're going to strugle with attenuation with that amount of spec malt in an extract beer, I'd suggest adding/(or subbing in) some dextrose

16 - Seehusen's blueberry hefe I did the first pour clean and the second 'mit hefe' for the full effect, & took a photo of each for science. Visually it has a "rosé blush" (thanks to my wife for the correct term) strong foam retention and generally looks like a hefe should. Aroma and flav wise...

it was also late hopped with mandarina bavaria at about 4g/l which could have added some spice. I was going for citrus with that :party:

I got heaps of cloves so I it's definitely phenolic, and at the least the shitloads of piperine combined with that could give a similar result.

hey @Parks on the chlorophenol issue - I opened the 'dregs' bottle of my swap beer with Rokaxe and he picked up bandaids as well. We ended up tipping it as there was too much sludge and particulate, so I guess any yeast or leftover pepper character would have been amplified.

I used 16g of whole peppercorns which I then crushed, & threw in a cube. I think that's about 10x your rate :P When do you put yours in?

600g seems right. Using this calculator for 21 litres of 1.010 wort https://www.captainbrew.com/dme-calculator