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I am brewing the Fly Blown Belgium at the moment. As it is the first time I have used a liquid yeast - I want to get the most out of it.

I want to put another brew down on the yeast cake, I just don't want to do another Fly Blown Belgium.

Does anyone know of a recipe that would go great with the abbey ale II, or just a base recipe for belgium blondes or pale ales that would go great with this yeast.

Much appreciated.

Phil
 
I made a really good Belgian pale ale a while back. Very simple recipe, 70% pale 2 row, 30% munich, shoot for an OG of 1.055. I went with a single bittering addition (90 min) for 23 IBU. If you want a low hop aroma, do a single hop addition for 45 minutes but scale the IBUs back to ~20. Simple recipe, but it makes for a really nice beer.

I just made a Belgian Blond and while it's still conditioning, it is tasting really good. Again, a simple recipe: 97% pale 2 row, 3% honey malt (but you could substitute aromatic malt if you can't find honey malt), OG of 1.070. 18 IBU from a single bittering addition.
 
Instead of pitching onto the yeast cake, have a read through This and bottle the yeast cake, then split it off into bottles or test tubes... This was you can get x bottles of generation 2 yeast and get heaps of batches out of it...

When I smack my pack and make a starter, I split the stater off into 6-8 300ml bottles, then make another starter with one of them, and put the rest in the fridge... Then ill use the yeast cake from the first batch a couple of times, but still have a heap of gen 1 yeast in the fridge B) Makes the $15 odd dollars for the smack pack seem like nothing, and ive even been doing it with dried yeast just to stretch the distance out of it...
 
Made this with 1214

Came out rather nicely - held at 24*C

Batch Size (L): 16.00 Wort Size (L): 16.00
Total Grain (Kg): 4.58
Anticipated OG: 1.072
Anticipated SRM: 3.4
Anticipated IBU: 32.5
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes
Mash Temp: 65

Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
78.6 3.60 kg. JW Export Pilsner Australia 1.037 2
21.4 0.98 kg. Candi Sugar (clear) Generic 1.046 1

Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
15.00 g. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 3.72 10.3 60 min.
10.00 g. Green Bullet Pellet 10.15 18.8 60 min.
10.00 g. Saaz Pellet 3.20 2.4 25 min.
10.00 g. Saaz Pellet 3.20 1.0 5 min.

Yeast
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Wyeast 1214 - Belgian Ale

And this to build up the yeast - held @ 20*C

Batch Size (L): 19.00
Total Grain (Kg): 4.65
Anticipated OG: 1.052
Anticipated SRM: 12.1
Anticipated IBU: 29.3
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes
Mash Temp: 65

Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
43.0 2.00 kg. JW Vienna Australia 1.036 5
38.7 1.80 kg. JW Export Pilsner Australia 1.037 2
17.2 0.80 kg. Weyermann - Munich II (Dark) Germany 1.038 9
1.1 0.05 kg. Roasted Barley Great Britain 1.029 575

Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20.00 g. Fuggle Pellet 6.10 20.9 60 min.
20.00 g. Fuggle Pellet 6.10 8.4 25 min.
20.00 g. Fuggle Pellet 6.10 0.0 0 min.

Yeast
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Wyeast 1214 - Belgian Ale
 
Hi Phillip, I agree with Newguy here.
It makes a very tasty Belgian Pale Ale.
I brewed one with a base of Pale malt and home roasted pale malt and was extremly happy with the result.
There were certainly some specialty grains in that too. I will try and locate the recipe and post it here.

I think the yeast would also go pretty nicely in a Dubbel, some recipes here:

http://www.specialtymalts.com/tech_center/dubbel.html

I hope the Fly Blown turns out to your taste. :D

C&B
TDA
 

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