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Ok here is my brew day from today. I made my summer comp Dubbel today.
Brooks Dubbel
First thing, first here is the recipe: http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/2435454?&doid=5ca8c5507a79e
There are a couple of tweaks we are subbing the amber candi for dark candi and dropping to 6oz. I am using the Imperial yeast Triple Double.
I started with distilled water since it’s a 90 min boil my full volume is 8.7 gallons of water. (this ended up being a mistake and why I think I missed my OG.)
Added salts and lactic acid during heating my strike water:
Then Milled my grain:
Mashed in at 152:
Mashed for 1 hour
I use the BIAB method so I squeezed my bag.
After 30 min of boiling I added 2.5 oz of Hersbrucker Hops 2.2 AA
I always rock some jams while I brew!
Here is my boil:
Added the chiller with 15 min left:
Added the Candi Sugar with 5 min left to boil:
Started my chill and my Hydra is super fast:
Chilled to 68 and moved to the fermenter:
Pitched my yeast and put it into the fermenter. I missed my target gravity by 6 points. I thnk 1.056 could still get me to 6% as long as my fermentation attenuates well. We will see…
Here are the numbers so far:
OG 1.056
Will ferment at 68 for the next 4 day then will ramp up to 70.
I’ll update this as things change…
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)👍 Looks like you had a great day Colter! ….I had to pull up the Weird Ways on Spotify, since I’m unfamiliar.
It’s pretty solid Jam! They are a newer band but it’s still rock and roll.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)In less than 24 hours we are already at 1.032 this yeast is a very fast fermentor!
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Adventures in every batch. Remember Belgian yeast means blow off tube. I thought about it and paid for not acting on it. But the Imperial Triple Double ferments like a champ.
The video is post cleanup the attached photo is the blowoff.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)48 hours and already at 1.012 I think this beer could go pretty low. I will totally hit 6% ABV. Went out this morning and check on it and it had blow off again, this yeast is a monster.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Ramping up the them to 70 today. The Dubbel’s current gravity is 1.006. I pitched on Monday at 1.056 and by Thursday we are 1.006. I think I will see a few points lower to finish. Maybe 1.004 or 1.002. I was worried about not having the OG to make this true to style but I should come in at 6.5 to 6.7 ABV.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Colter:
Looks like things are going well. How do you like your Tilt? Do you find they are pretty accurate, any problems? I looked at them but was nervous about spending the money if they did not work, on the other hand I cannot have too many brewing toys.
Chuck
I like how my tilt works but the key is having software to do the logging. Just using the app will not log the gravity like mine does. I use Fermentrack and that is project in it’s self. I would recommend that you have a way to keep it logging at lest to google docs. My neighbor has a tablet that is always online with the app open and logging to Google sheets.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)I saw that and that would work. I am a huge fan of the tilt because it’s a great device and they are not trying to sell you a cloud service. The Brew Bug did pretty much the same thing but shut down their cloud service when it went out of biz. It’s a little more work to get it to log continually bud not that much. There is a cloud based brewing software called brewfather. They integrate with tilt if you want to attach that to your brew logs. https://brewfather.app/
To be honest I could do a better job on my brew logs.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Packaging day is here!
So Here is how my fermentation went:
I finished at 1.004. I cold crashed the low temp always drops a couple points on the Tilt so I finished at 1.006. or 6.7%
I then bottled a few so I can have some for the competition. They will bottle condition. I used bottle drops.
Next I moved to the keg:
After that I am force carbing it at 40 for 24 hours then I will drop it to serving temp.
As a reminder here is the recipe:
Brooks Dubbel
Recipe Details
Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV 5 gal 90 min 21.7 19.1 SRM 1.062 1.008 7.09 % Actuals 1.062 1.008 7.09 % Style Details
Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV Belgian Dubbel 26 B 1.062 - 1.075 1.008 - 1.018 15 - 25 10 - 17 0 - 0 0 - 0 % Fermentables
Name Amount % Pilsner (2 Row) Bel 10 lbs 82.31 Munich Malt - 10L 1.001 lbs 8.24 Special B Malt 8.01 oz 4.12 Candi Sugar, Dark 6.38 oz 3.28 Aromatic Malt 3.99 oz 2.05 Hops
Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha % Hallertau 2.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 2.5 Yeast
Name Lab Attenuation Temperature Triple Double (B48) Imperial Yeast 76% 32°F - 32°F Mash
Step Temperature Time Mash In 150.1°F 75 min Download
Download this recipe's BeerXML file Cheers
Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)Man, I love that data that yout Tilt gives you. That is slick. I might have to start looking into one of these once I am back on the brewing train.
Just wait! I have been using the https://brewfather.app for my software on my last couple of brews. I am working on a project where my logging software http://fermentrack.com starts talking to the brewfather app. It will then log my beer data right in my brew log automatically. Brewfather currently supports Tilt. But I will also be able to add my fermentation data too. It’s getting really powerful.
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Serving: Brooks Irish Red 4.8% ABV
Serving: Robert's IPA
Fermenting: We Are The Dreamer of Dreams (NEIPA)
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