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Tripel Trouble

Tripel Trouble

Belgian Golden Strong Ale • Extract • 5 gal

Croc_Ryan

Youll Get into plenty with This one

December 25, 2007 pm 10:24pm

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 1 lbs Belgian Pils

    Belgian Pils

    Pilsner style malted barley grain.

  • 0.5 lbs White Wheat Malt

    White Wheat Malt

    Weizens. Improves head retention in all beers. Contributes spicy flavor. Protein rest required.

  • 0.25 lbs Belgian Aromatic

    Belgian Aromatic

    Imparts a big malt aroma. Use in brown ales, Belgian dubbels and tripels.

  • 0.25 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

    Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.

  • 3 lbs Dry Extra Light Extract

    Dry Extra Light Extract

    For making very pale ales and lagers.

  • 4 lbs Liquid Light Extract

    Liquid Light Extract

    A brewer can create any beer style with this extract when used as a base in conjunction with colored malts and selected hops. Contains no colored malts or hops.

  • 1.5 lbs Honey

    Honey

    Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.

  • 0.5 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.

  • 1 oz Amarillo® - 8.5 AA% whole; boiled 50 min

    Amarillo®

    Grown in Washington. A newer multi-use hop with a nice citrus-flower bouquet and medium-high acid content suited for bittering. Used in American Ales and IPAs.

  • 0.5 oz Styrian Goldings - 6.0 AA% whole; boiled 20 min

    Styrian Goldings

    Mild, pleasant.

  • 0.5 oz Styrian Goldings - 6.0 AA% whole; boiled 10 min

    Styrian Goldings

    Mild, pleasant.

  • 0.75 oz Sweet Orange Peel - 20min Boil - (omitted from calculations)

    Sweet Orange Peel - 20min Boil

  • 0.25 oz Crushed Coriander Seed - 10min steep - (omitted from calculations)

    Crushed Coriander Seed - 10min steep

  • Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity™

    Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity™

    Robust top cropping yeast with phenolic character. Alcohol tolerance to 12%. Ideal for Biere de Garde. Ferments dry with rich ester profile and malty palate.

Notes

Threw in some left over Pils malt and did a really small mash - Use a blow tube for this one, it really gets going

Style (BJCP)

Category: 18 - Belgian Strong Ale

Subcategory: D - Belgian Golden Strong Ale

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.082 1.070 - 1.095
Terminal Gravity: 1.012 1.005 - 1.016
Color: 6.6 SRM 3 - 6
Alcohol: 9.3% ABV 7.5% - 10.5%
Bitterness: 28.8 IBU 22 - 35

Discussion

Herr Schneider

Sounds good to me!

2010-10-05 9:12pm

Just ordered materials. I'm brewing this one soon. Will comment after the Holidays.

Herr Schneider

Good basic Tripel

2011-08-12 11:06am

It's been a while since I brewed this, but as I recall it was a good basic tripel. Very representative of the style I think. I brewed this, and a spiced Christmas Ale (porter) last holiday season, and this was the preference among my family. Worth brewing again.

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