So it looks like I'm brewing up some Belgian beer this Saturday. The recipe is very simple, designed to be highly fermentable.
For 40 L batch after kettle boil:
9 kg Pale 2-row, mashed at 65 C for 1 hour.
No mashout (should increase fermentables even more still), sparge with 75 C water.
The gravity at knockout will be 20.0 Plato (1.069). The wort from the grain will be boiled for 60 minutes, at which point 300 g of Belgian amber candi sugar crystals will be added, as well as much dextrose to bump the gravity to 20 P. On my system, I'll need about 44.9 L of preboil wort at a gravity of 14.9 P.
Hops:
350 AAU of EK Goldings at 75 min boil (70 g for my Goldings)
180 AAU of Saaz at 25 min boil (50 g for my Saaz)
Yeast:
All I have access to is Wyeast's 3864 Canadian/Belgian yeast, which is apparently the Unibroue yeast. I plan to make a starter on Thursday or Friday from the smack pack to get a nice healthy pitching of yeast.
Fermentation:
Should ferment pretty warm, hopefully 24-26 C.
The predicted colour is slightly darker than the limits for the style, but not by much, and I don't care either.
Cheers!
Exclusion Principle
2 days ago
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hefound your blog cuz i was lookin for a recipe for belgian golden strong ale.my smack pack of belgian abbey II is warmin up in my pocket right now!i brew 10 gal batches.big cooler false bottom mash/lautertun,sskeg with a tiger torch for boiler/burner immersion cooler....havent brewed for a while...i miss it!...that awsome smell of malt and hops boiling...mmmmm.....i have some kolsch in the kegs still,but i need variaty man!...smacked an outdated pack of 1056..if it lives ill be brewing with my homegrown cascade hops..i live in grand forks bc.....wish i had a job brewin!CHEERS.Doug
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howd you get a job brewwing????
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