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Belgian Christmas Ale

This is the recipe for a Belgian Style Christmas ale that I brewed last week. I say Belgian style, as I've dropped some of the complex malts in favour of simpler alternatives, hoping that it will age and come good in time for this Christmas. On with the recipe: Style: Belgian Dubbel Volume into Ferm...

Well I was able to give this a shot today, and a lengthy 5 1/2 hours later its in the fermentor with yeast pitched. The recipe I finally used was: Brew Length: 9.26L 1.79 kg Marris Otter 224g Roast Barley 224g Flaked Barley 148g Carapils 112g Amber Malt 112g Chocolate Malt 45g Carafa Type 3 19.4g Ta...

After checking I hadn't sent the PM to BeachBum correctly, so I re-sent today and he kindly responded immediately with the added information: Dry Stout Recipe Specs ---------------- Batch Size (L): 24.0 Total Grain (kg): 5.930 Total Hops (g): 40.00 Original Gravity (OG): 1.052 (°P): 12.9 Final Gravi...

Hey Shibolet, Thanks for your input! It's useful to see the whole recipe for your porter, and your comments about the whisky are very much appreciated. I think I'll probably soak the oak as well, just as I'll have 7-10 days anyway while the primary ferment is on, but it looks like people are definit...

Thanks, it's encouraging to know that I got a decent amount of it right on my first stab! I've sent BeachBum a PM to see if he has any extra information about the recipe that might help, and thanks for the slight alterations on the calculator. When I get a chance I'll get around to doing the calibra...

Thanks for taking a look PP, to address some of your points: Yeah I was a little thrown by there not been an OG on there, I can have a go at contacting the author, I guess it will all depend on the amount of information he records about the brews! I was meaning 10L into fermenter, I've just realised...

Hey Pistol, Squared :thumbs: Glad the process thinking sounds about right on this, if you wouldn't mind having a quick check over the recipe PP that'd be very much appreciated and it'd just settle my mind a bit before ordering everything! The White Labs yeasts are the liquid vial ones rather than sm...

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