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Howdy... anyone know how this turned out? I'm thinking about trying a clone for this beer as well.

Day 10 has gotten here! I was a little concerned on Day 3 so I pulled a sample measured the gravity while swapping the blowoff tube. It had great fruity notes like any decent Belgian beer. It did have a crazy bitter/metalish finish. My memory compared the finish to something like Palate...

Day 2... the temp kicked up higher than what I wanted yesterday while I was at work. Somewhere around 79-81. I dropped the temp to try to keep it about 70-72 hopefully. Strange thing, the krausen has pretty much fallen which I thought was unexpected for this yeast (Belgian #3522). It is still...

Yep, brewed in a grain bag. Honestly, I didn't even think about testing it in water. I'll do that when I get home and also see adding sugar to test readings. Thanks for spelling that out to me! Yea, I could see how that could throw you off. It would me. This is certainly a process that you...

Yeah, I'm bummed but live and learn. My process... On my sparging technique, I slowly heated the mash to 170F after steeping for 60 minutes around 154F. Once to 170F, I moved the wort to the boiler then sparged 5 quarts of 170F water through the grains 16 oz at a time until empty then...

So brew day is complete. We'll see what happens. I measured the OG and it came out WAY lower than what was predicted. 1.050 (actual) vs 1.072 (predicted by Brewtoad). I'm bummed about that. I mixed the wort and corrected the reading for 78F. I did top off the wort with .5 g of water after boil...

Great, thanks again for your suggestions! I'm excited to give this a try!

Honestly, I didn't even think about using table sugar for dryness. That sounds like a good idea! Maybe .5 lb of table sugar at flame out? After adding that Brewtoad claims that ABV goes up a few points to 6.9% and the IBU drops to 0.62 from 0.69. Sounds acceptable. Thanks, I'll have to take...

Thanks for the reply! You are correct, that was suppose to be .5 lb. I was just looking at Northern Brewer and I think I might change it and remove that since I was thinking about using their Super Structure Malt Blend for IPA syrup. So something like this... I'm thinking that would lighten up...

Hello all, newbie here on the forum! I'm making my first home brew recipe. Basically my take on a partial mash Belgian IPA. Below is the base that I have minus some of the things I want to try in secondary and the hop makeup. My main question is the grain bill. Does it look okay? Any other...