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Westbirk Tripel #1

Tripel recipe based on David Heath's co-fermentation tripel. Source (Youtube).

Grist

  • 3800g pils (Castle, 3 EBC)
  • 185g Caramel Münich I (BESTMALTZ 90 EBC)
  • 600g table sugar

Hops

  • 9g Magnum @ 60 min
  • 23g Saaz @ 15 min

Yeast

  • Mangrove Jack's M31
  • Lallemand Voss Kviek

Other ingredients

  • 2ml lactic acid (80%) - mash
  • 1.8g (a pinch?) table salt - mash

11.5L wort @ 1.082 (target 1.079)

SG 1.010 measured 10/2 FG 1.010-08 measured 14/2. Put in basement for cold crashing.

Bottling

Bottled 17/2. 70g sugar and 2dL boiled for 5 minutes and added to 10.5L beer.

Tasting notes

19/2: Lightly carbonated. Heavy banana aroma. Maybe more of a saison than tripel?

21/2: Lightly carbonated still. Much less banana aroma. More of a balanced, but quite heavily spicy flavour.

3/3: Well carbonated but could maybe use a bit more for next brew. Spicy notes seem way more subdued.