my Belgian Golden Recipe

[fredthecat]

Does this sound about right? this will be my second all grain batch, and i'm aiming for something simple in the form of a golden beer for summer. i would add aromatic (also no biscuit malt) but i cant get it around here and was trying to figure out if i should substitute 1lb of the pilsener malt for anything else? i want a somewhat dry golden here balanced between light biscuity malt and hop flavour, though i dont know exactly how it will turn out

-5kg (11 lb) pilsener
-0.5lb flaked oats (ask if you can just use quickoats)

-1oz styrian golding @ 60 min
-1oz saaz @ 30 min

safale t-58 yeast, recommended starter on their site (i dont have access to any liquid yeasts)


appreciate any suggestions at all, including style changes!

 

[Freezeblade]

take the flaked oats and toast them in a 350F oven untill they smell like cookies. that will add some biscuity-toastyness.

 

[fredthecat]

cool, i toasted them in the oven this afternoon and am letting them mellow as suggested on related oat toasting pages, hopefully ill brew this on friday or saturday!

 

[permo]

not sure about oats in a belgian, i would also think you would want a little sugar in the recipe.....

You may want to ditch the oats, use a little biscuit or aromatic malt, sugar and pilsener extract.

Pilsen base
4 oz biscuit
1 pound sugar
belgian yeast
noble hops

sounds good to me

since you aren't brewing for a little while, get your hiney to the beer store and grab a chimay..harvest the yeast and use that. I have a nice light golden belgian that I brewed with Chimay yeast, pilsen and sugar......

 

[fredthecat]

does chimay bottle with their yeast though? im not sure? also, im hoping to definitely do this on the weekend while ive still got big chunks of ice around i can use for cooling (im poor)

also unfortunately dont have access to either aromatic or biscuit so i think im going to use 0.5lb toasted oat and 0.5lb wheat malt along with one pound of sugar or candy

 

[permo]

Chimay bottles with the primary strain. Tasty stuff

 

[fredthecat]

cool, thanks i might put dregs of a chimay white in