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Booby Trapp-ist

Booby Trapp-ist

Belgian Dark Strong Ale • Partial Mash • 5.5 gal

mikez

Wife convinced me not to do a stout, brother in law suggested a trappist style, here's what I came up with.

April 27, 2010 am 12:18am

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Ingredients (Partial Mash5.5 gal)

  • 1 lbs Belgian Pale

    Belgian Pale

    Fully modified and is easily converted.

  • 3 lbs Munich TYPE I; Weyermann®

    Munich TYPE I; Weyermann®

    German-grown two-row spring barley (2004 harvest). Product Characteristics: Imparts strongly malty notes to finished beer. Intended mainly for dark ales and lagers. Recommended Quantities: Up to 100% of total grain bill Suitability (beer styles): Lagers: Oktoberfestbier, Märzen, Bockbier, Dunkel Ales: Dark, Stout

  • 1 lbs Diastatic Wheat Malt; Weyermann®

    Diastatic Wheat Malt; Weyermann®

    German-grown top-quality wheat (2004 harvest). Product Characteristics: Ideal addition to pale or dark wheat beers, whenever extra diastatic power is needed in the mash. Can be used to replace “regular” pale wheat malt. Recommended Quantities: Up to 50% of total grain bill Suitability (beer styles): Ales: Dunkelweizen, Weizenbock, Weizendopplebock, pub wheat ales, light or low-alcohol beers

  • .5 lbs Belgian Biscuit

    Belgian Biscuit

    Warm baked biscuit flavor and aroma. Increases body. Use in Belgian beers.

  • 6.6 lbs Unhopped Plain Light; Coopers

    Unhopped Plain Light; Coopers

  • 2 lbs Dry Light Extract

    Dry Light Extract

    White color, mild flavor. Will produce lagers and Pilseners and can also be used to produce darker beers when used in conjunction with colored malts. Made of pale malt.

  • 1 lbs Candi Sugar Amber

    Candi Sugar Amber

    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 lbs Invert Sugar

    Invert Sugar

    Increases alcohol. Use in some Belgian or English ales. Made from sucrose & is 5-10% less fermentable than sucrose. Does not contain dextrins.

  • 2 oz Tettnanger - 4.5 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Tettnanger

    Mild, slightly spicy. 'Noble'.

  • 1 oz Styrian Goldings - 7.0 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Styrian Goldings

    Mild, pleasant.

  • 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

Add some sugar to the wort and some incrementally to primary per yeast instructions.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 18 - Belgian Strong Ale

Subcategory: E - Belgian Dark Strong Ale

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.102 1.075 - 1.110
Terminal Gravity: 1.017 1.010 - 1.024
Color: 15.9 SRM 12 - 22
Alcohol: 11.2% ABV 8% - 11%
Bitterness: 25.0 IBU 20 - 35

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