Eureka, today an other Belgian style recipe. This recipe is the reloaded version of the #20 Reason to Life. Designed as a split batch to determine the character of Wyeast’s #3522 Belgian Ardennes and #3787 Trappist Hight Gravity. And use candy syrup for the first time.
| Recipe: | Another Reason to Life | |
| Numbers: | Volume [L] | 20 (5.3 gal) |
| Original gravity | 15.6°P | |
| Terminal gravity | 2.6°P | |
| Color | Around 21 EBC | |
| IBU | 25 IBU | |
| ABV | 7.1 % | |
| Grains: | Vienna Malt (8.5 EBC) | 1 kg |
| Pilsner Malt (4.5 EBC) | 4 kg | |
| Carafa Typ 1 (900 EBC) | 0.075 kg | |
| Crystal (120 EBC) | 0.10 kg | |
| Hops: | Magnum (15% AA) | 16 g and boil for 60 min |
| Hersbrucker (4% AA) | 16 g and boil for 1 min | |
| Candy sugar (425 EBC) | 0.25 kg and boil for 10 min | |
| Candy syrup | 0.325 kg and boil for 10 min | |
| Raisins | 0.138 kg and boil for 10 min | |
| Yeast: | #3522 Belgian Ardennes & #3787 Trappist High Gravity | |
| Water: | Burgdorf | Mash: 20 L (5.3 gal), lauter: 15 L (4 gal) @78°C (172°F) |
| Rest: | 3 steps | Mash in @35°C (95°F) and raise temperature to 55°C , 20 min @ 55°C (131°F), 60 min @ 66°C (151°F), 10 min @ 78°C (172°F) |
| Boil: | Total 60 min | |
| Fermentation: | Primary | 9 days @ 22°C (72°F) in a plastic bucket |
| Secondary | 15 days @ 22°C (72°F) in a plastic bucket | |
| Maturation: | Carbonation (CO2 vol) | 2 with cane sugar (31 g to 5 L) |
| Maturation time | 3 – 4 weeks @16°C (61°F) | |
Front left: #38 Flanders Red is sparging and the wort is collected in the kettle with the brown cover. Back right: #39 Another Reason to Life is resting in the kettle with the stirrer.
09/09/2011: Brew day. This was a very busy brew day because I did a Flanders batch in parallel. And I was brewing alone.
Followed the recipe. 10 minute whirlpool rest after boil and cooled down for pitching. Split the batch in half (2x 9 L) and added the yeasts.
09/18/2011: Raked the beers in a secondary fermenter.
10/03/2011: Bottled half of each batch. Combined the other half’s of the batches and dumped two dregs of BFM’s La Torpille in the fermenter. (This is the beer where I took the sample for this microscope pictures.)
12/23/2011: Tasting. The tasting notes can be found here.
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