AB:01
Vanilla Bean Infused Belgian Quad.
Made with the yeast from a bottle of Westvleteren 12, aged with vanilla beans. Only available in 375ml bottles. Limited to 3200 bottles. The first in our Abstrakt series.
Malt: Extra Pale (7.75 kilograms) Malt: Wheat (0.5 kilograms) Malt: Munich (0.5 kilograms) Hops: Saaz (25 grams) - start bitter Hops: Saaz (15 grams) - end flavour Hops: Styrian Goldings (15 grams) - end flavour Yeast: Westvleteren 12 (recovered from a bottle)
- Baked brown butter lobster - Apple crumble and custard - Coffee carrot cake
To capture yeast from another bottle conditioned beer, simply make up a starter with some wort and grow the yeast up. Once it goes through a fermentation at 1 litre it can go straight into your wort to start the main fermentation.