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Had not considered that, very interesting. It could be then called "Up On Tripel Kriek".

Final update: it is pretty darn good, but still green. However, there is very little of it left, as my friends and brother have learned of its existence.

Would love to hear anything you find out about this.

Wow - fascinated to try this at some point, thanks for posting

Update 11/11/2012: Quite clear and dark now. I may bottle it this week.

This is for research purposes (really). Bevmo ships, so I'm putting together a wish list for under the tree. Any suggestions? Current list: Affligem Abbey Ale Tripel Lost Abbey Avant Garde Ale Chimay white label Delirium Tremens Duvel Gouden Carolus Tripel Gulden Draak Orval Trappist Ale...

Update 11/3/2012: Racked to secondary. Beer is at 1.014, many complex flavors already after 3 weeks and I can tell it will be much better in a month or two when the hops wear down. Next batch I'll use about half as much hops.

Friday measured gravity: 1.016 Also on Friday I finally found an aquarium heater and set up the water at 72. It has been at 72 ever since, although I'm not sure it will get any drier than that - I was expecting 1.017 according to the online calculators and BeerSmith. It smells and tastes...

hogwash - thanks! I haven't actually racked it yet, ran out of time and figured I'd do it at lunch today. I'll keep it on the cake for now. I have it in the house and it is back up to 66 and bubbling away. Was down to 1.024 last night (from 1.030 the previous day) so it is definitely on the...

Brewed 1 week ago, down to 1.030 (from 1.080). It has been holding at 65 degrees or so day and night, so has been very steady, and tastes and smells fantastic. It got cold last night, though, and bucket is down to 54 deg. In the house warming up now, and I'll rack to secondary today (rousing the...

larrybrewer - yup, definitely. Mine are almost always different from expectations (usually higher = less attenuation). Mine is bubbling away nicely now, no volcano action, but it has also been quite cool - keeping it at 64-66 as that is the ambient temp. I'll need to buy an aquarium heater to...

I'm surprised no one else has suggested "Horse Apples", but maybe that phrase isn't as widely used as I would expect?

Finally brewed! Final recipe: 5lbs light DME 2.5lbs amber DME 1.5 lbs invert sugar (cane juice reduced to syrup with 1T lemon juice) 60 minute boil: 2oz Wilammette (60 mins) 2oz Kent Golding (15 mins) 1 whirfloc tablet (15 mins) WPL500 starter cooled to room temp (72) after about 45 minutes...

Finally brewing my first attempt at a Belgian Tripel this weekend - calling it Tripel Entendre. It is made up of about 8 lbs of light & amber DME left over from a shopping trip, 1.5 lbs of cane sucrose candi-fied (converted to invert sugar), some mild hops, and a starter of WPL500 that I just...

Ok, thanks - I'll probably throw in another 0.5lb of invert sugar (homemade candi). It always confused me that adding more sugar would "dry out" the beer to a lower FG, until I realized what is going on - more sugar means higher ABV, which means a lower FG. So the same absolute amount of...

I'm playing around with Brewer's Friend and plugged in my recipe. It does seem to qualify as a slightly dark Trippel, which is nice, although the flavor from the yeast I think is most important - I don't care that much about the ranking. What did catch my eye, though is the high final gravity...

I never got a krausen, just some interesting little bubble islands roaming around on the surface evidencing much activity within, but even that has slowed down a bit. It has mostly been in the 66-68 range and got fairly cold last night, so it is probably done doing whatever it will do. I'm going...

Project update: I made a big starter (1.060) with one vial of WPL500. It took 48 hrs to get going (see https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/starter-not-starting-359168/#post4474791) and never did build up a krausen, just little moving islands of bubbles on top. It happily bubbled for 2 days at...

landshark that was my experience precisely - mine took almost exactly 48 hrs. I started it on Thursday eve and set it on the kitchen counter. Saturday eve I was sitting in the kitchen finishing up a homebrew and reading John Palmer's book again, and heard a little noise behind me. We have had...

...and now moving & grooving, though no krausen. I'm happy now :) thanks for the help