Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: WLP570 Yeast Starter: 1L Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: S-04 Batch Size (Gallons): 3 Original Gravity: 1.072 Final Gravity: 1.006 IBU: 22 (Rager) Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 Color: 4 (SRM) Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 7 (see notes) Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14 @ 32 deg Tasting Notes: On-the-money clone for this award winning Belgian Strong.
Coriander Seed 7.20 grams, Spice, 10 min
Ginger 2.40 grams, Spice, 10 min
Paradise 2.40 grams, Spice, 10 min
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Recipe is from a Belgian who supposedly knew the brewmaster at Huyghe.
10 min @ 125F mash-in, 45 min @ 144F, 30 min @ 158F, 172F mashout. I'm frankly skeptical of the effectiveness of this mash schedule, but hey, it's how Huyghe does it, I'm told. 90 minute boil. 7 day ferment (pitch both yeasts), starting at 67F and allowed to rise as yeast desired. 14 day lager at 30F, followed by a 21 day warm bottle condition at 76F.
How does it compare and do you have one for NOEL? I enjoy this much more than Tremens.
Spice and color are dead-on. In my first brewing back in the fall, fermentation topped out at 74 so it didn't attenuate as well as I'd have liked. FG was 1.010 on that batch. I wrapped the fermenter in a blanket after 48 hours this time and it hit 82. FG was 1.006.
Sorry, I've never been in Belgium during the holidays so I haven't had a Noel. My bud in A'dam tells me it's a split between Tremens and Nocturnum. I'm not a big fan of Nocturnum.
I've had Nocturnum but don't recall the flavor. I just know I like the Noel. I can find it in southern OH, just had a bottle 2 weekends ago in Athens OH, surely you can find it in Colorado!
I understand it's seasonal, I guess it's probably because I live in a very non-beer savvy area so the bottles just stay available longer after the season.
All-Grain - Pink Elephant (Delirium Tremens clone)
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