Belgian tripel recipe, keg hopping and more

Plus, specialty grains guide, bottle filling station project, and more

Find Recipes Start your free trial Brew Day Bulletin Dear Homebrewer, Test your homebrewing skills with this Belgian tripel recipe, Tripel the Light Fantastic [Free]. Use only light base malts and about 25% clear adjunct (sugar); pitch a big yeast starter and add some yeast nutrients in the boil to supply nitrogen to the yeast. The specialty grains you choose for your brew have a big impact on how it is perceived. Read our guide to specialty grains: caramel and roasted malts [Free].  Our German Hefeweizen style profile [Digital Members] has everything you need to successfully brew Hefeweizen at home, including a recipe for Harold-is-Weizen [Digital Members].  Follow this step-by-step guide to build a miniature bottling line [Free] and say goodbye to foam volcanos and sticky floors. Or, avoid bottling altogether with this DIY portable draft system [Digital Members]. Mr. Wizard shares tips for dry hopping in general and keg hopping in particular [Free] as well as choosing bittering hops [Digital Members]. Bell's Brewery's Hopslam Ale clone recipe [Digital Members] involves a complex hopping schedule, starting with six different hop varieties added to the brew kettle and culminating with a massive dry hop addition of Simcoe® hops. Cheers! Brad Ring Publisher Read & Brew: Free Content For All Recipe Tripel the Light Fantastic Light colors and dry finishes don't go along with most big beers, but that's exactly what makes a Belgian tripel great. The road to homebrew heaven is littered with failed tripel attempts, but here's your path to salvation — use only light base malts and about 25% clear adjunct (sugar); pitch a big yeast starter and add some yeast nutrients in the boil to supply nitrogen to the yeast. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.081  FG = 1.015 IBU = 25  SRM = 4  ABV = 8.5% Ingredients 9.75 lbs. (4.4 kg) Dingemans Belgian Pilsen malt 2.5 lbs. (1.1 kg) Durst Vienna malt (4 °L) 3.0 lbs. (1.4 kg) Belgian clear candi sugar (15 min.) 7.5 AAU Tettnang hops (60 min.) (1.9 oz./53 g of 4% alpha acids) Read more Article Specialty Grains: Caramel and Roasted Malts While many factors create a beer's overall flavor, the specialty grains you choose for your brew may have the biggest impact on how it is perceived. Most all-grain beer recipes consist of 80 to 90 percent generic pale two- or six-row malt. The rest of the grain bill consists of one or more specialty malts.  Read more Ask Mr Wizard Keg Hopping Q Some questions came up in our homebrew club about keg hopping. First, will you get the same effects in a cold keg as you would a warm secondary? and if it does work, what is a good method (quantity, temperature, time frame)? A My general rule, and one that is shared by many a brewer, is that most changes to a process variable will likely change something that can be detected in the finished beer. Sometimes the change can only be detected with a laboratory instrument and in other cases small changes can have very dramatic effects. This does not mean that the same end result cannot be obtained using different methods and the real challenge some brewers face is brewing the same beer in different breweries with very different tools.   Read More Project Bottle Filling Station Ever since my brother Brenton and I moved from bottle conditioning to kegging, bottling has become associated with foam volcanos and sticky floors. Since the beer is carbonated it made bottling a little tricky. With the recent expansion to 20-gallon (75.7-L) batches something had to change if we wanted to continue bottling our homebrew. One of our goals in this upgrade was to make as many aspects of our brewhouse semi-automated and more efficient. Read More For Digital Members Only Members get access to thousands of recipes, all new BYO issues and more. Try membership risk free for 14 days.* Brew Better. Try Membership, Free!* Recipe Bell's Brewery's Hopslam Ale clone Starting with six different hop varieties added to the brew kettle and culminating with a massive dry hop addition of Simcoe® hops, Bell's Hopslam Ale possesses the most complex hopping schedule in the Bell's repertoire. (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.086  FG = 1.010 IBU = 65+  SRM = 7  ABV = 10% Ingredients 11 lbs. (5 kg) 2-row malt 5.5 lbs. (2.5 kg) pale ale malt 0.5 lb. (0.23 kg) caramel malt (40 °L)   Read more Article German Hefeweizen Most people seem to either love or hate German wheat beers and they usually base their opinion on early taste experiences. Those that love hefeweizen probably had the chance to try a great example with the proper level of fermentation-derived esters and phenols. Those who dislike hefeweizen likely experienced some bad examples, where the yeast character was overwhelming or completely out of balance. Read more Ask Mr. Wizard Choosing bittering hops? Q When substituting bittering hops, how important are the hop characteristics? It would seem that the boiling of the hops destroys most everything except the desired bitterness. Also, the hop substitution guide lists Northern Brewer as a substitute for Perle but not the reverse. Can you clarify this for me? A In my experience, variety does matter whether you are substituting hops in a recipe primarily for bittering or for aroma. The compounds in hops that contribute bitterness to beer are the alpha acids, with humulone, adhumulone and cohumulone being the most significant in terms of amount. Hop chemists use several methods to separate the various compounds in hops and brewing scientists have tried to figure out the effect these compounds have on finished beer flavor.    Read more Project Portable Draft System Adding a kegging system to your homebrew setup is often a welcome addition (and relief) to brewers. You can save time that would normally be spent bottling, precisely control and adjust carbonation levels, and you do not need to wait on the natural carbonation process. The problem arises when you want to take your finely crafted draft beer on the road.  Read more *For new members and subscribers only. Limit one per customer. Additional auto-renewal terms apply. See product checkout page for details.  Copyright © 2020 Brew Your Own, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from Brew Your Own Our mailing address is: Brew Your Own 5515 Main St Manchester Center, VT 05255 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? 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