Recipes...Appreciate some insight

[EddieTheBrewerLADET]

About to brew these...any thoughts before I proceed?

Generic Belgian Tripel:
6 lb Pale LME
3 lb Pilsen Light DME
1lb Candi Sugar

Grains:
10oz Belgian Pilsner
2oz Belgian Aromatic
4oz Carafoam

Hops:
60 min 1oz Cluster
15 min .5oz Styrian Golding
0 min .5oz Styrian Golding

Yeast WLP500

Will this get me in the ballpark of something like Duvel or Delerium Tremens?

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90 min IPA Clone

9lb Pale Liquid Malt Extract
1lb Muntons Dry Malt Extract
+1lb Table Sugar

Hops:
1.0oz Amarillo
0.5oz Simcoe
0.5oz Warrior

1 WLP007 +
1 Nottingham Yeast

Dry Hop
+1lb Table Sugar
1.0oz Amarillo
0.5oz Simcoe
0.5oz Magnum




Okay anyone, thoughts?? I did tweak the 90 min recipe a bit to accommodate for what the shop had available that I went to but I think I stuck pretty damn close.

Hopefully I didn't just blow 130 bucks haha....


Thx!
Edward

 

[pdxal]

I'd drop the carafoam from the tripel, most tripels are just pilsner malt, a little aromatic, and lots of sugar. Yeast is really what makes the beer. You could make it with just LME and DME, perhaps 7lbs total, and 2 pounds cane/table sugar, yeast and hops to have 20-30IBUs with none or very little late hops and make a good beer. Cluster wouldn't be appropriate, too, better would be a clean bittering hop like Magnum. Candi sugar isn't needed and is way more expensive. If you do use malt, make sure it mashes at 148-150 for 30-60 minutes to be sure it converts and leaves a very dry beer.

 

[RM-MN]

I'd drop the carafoam from the tripel, most tripels are just pilsner malt, a little aromatic, and lots of sugar. Yeast is really what makes the beer. You could make it with just LME and DME, perhaps 7lbs total, and 2 pounds cane/table sugar, yeast and hops to have 20-30IBUs with none or very little late hops and make a good beer. Cluster wouldn't be appropriate, too, better would be a clean bittering hop like Magnum. Candi sugar isn't needed and is way more expensive. If you do use malt, make sure it mashes at 148-150 for 30-60 minutes to be sure it converts and leaves a very dry beer.

I agree to drop the carafoam but for a different reason. Your malt extract probably already has carapils or carafoam in it. There isn't much reason to add any more.

 

[EddieTheBrewerLADET]

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[RM-MN]

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Carafoam is intended to promote the heading of your beer. When the malt extract is made it isn't just pale malt but a mixture of grains which usually contain the carapils or carafoam (nearly identical). Since the malt extract already has this contribution, adding more won't make much difference in the heading of your beer. Clean glassware with no soap or detergent residue will be much more important.

As an aside, I brew all grain and have quit using any extra heading agent because I get plenty of foam without that.