Tripel the Fun
Belgian Tripel • Partial Mash • 5.2 gal
I know it's "out of style", but who cares? It's for enjoying, not for entering in a competition. Besides, I brewed it before and it was WONDERFUL. I added a touch of Nottingham yeast to help clear it up, and man oh man, it is fantastic. Oh, I pitched 2 vials of the White Labs Belgian Golden yeast.
August 13, 2010 pm 04:29pm
Ingredients (Partial Mash, 5.2 gal)
- 3.5 lbs
Belgian Pale
Belgian Pale
Fully modified and is easily converted.
- 1 lbs
Vienna Malt; Briess
Vienna Malt; Briess
Malty, very slight biscuit flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Can be used as a base malt • Use with Caramel Malts to produce malty red and amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- .33 lbs
Belgian Cara-Pils
Belgian Cara-Pils
Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.
- 4.5 lbs
Extra Pale; Morgans
Extra Pale; Morgans
For making very pale ales and lagers.
- 2 lbs
Candi Sugar Clear
Candi Sugar Clear
Smooth taste, good head retention, sweet aroma and high gravity without being apparent. Use in Belgian and holiday ales. Use clear for tripels, amber for dubbels, and dark is used in brown beer and strong golden ales.
- 2.5 lbs
Corn Sugar
Corn Sugar
Use in priming beer or in extract recipes where flaked maize would be used in a mash.
- 1 lbs
White Table Sugar (Sucrose)
White Table Sugar (Sucrose)
Common household table/baking sugar. Lightens flavor and body of beer. Can contribute a cider-like flavor to the beer if not cold-fermented or used in large quantities.
- 1 oz
Brewers Gold - 9.0 AA% pellets; boiled 50 min
Brewers Gold
Sibling of and similar to Bullion only maturing earlier and more disease resistant. English/wild Canadian cross. Pungent English character. very poor
- 1 oz
Saaz - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 2 min
Saaz
Used for finishing pilseners, continental lagers, and wheats. The aroma is spicy and pleasant with fragrant overtones.
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White Labs WLP570 Belgian Golden Ale
White Labs WLP570 Belgian Golden Ale
From East Flanders, versatile yeast that can produce light Belgian ales to high gravity Belgian beers (12% ABV). A combination of fruitiness and phenolic characteristics dominate the flavor profile. Some sulfur is produced during fermentation, which will
Style (BJCP)
Category: 18 - Belgian Strong Ale
Subcategory: C - Belgian Tripel
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.098 | 1.075 - 1.085 | |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.015 | 1.008 - 1.014 | |
| Color: | 5.5 SRM | 4.5 - 7 | |
| Alcohol: | 11.0% ABV | 7.5% - 9.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 34.1 IBU | 20 - 40 |
