Tripel issues

[Megaseth]

Brewed a Tripel last night with 9lbs belgian pils malt, 3lbs flaked oats, 1.5lbs flaked barley, and 1lb of flaked wheat.

I'm using a 10 gallon aluminum brew pot with a 3/8" ss braided line/screen in the bottom. When draining the wort off I had a really hard time getting it to flow. Which resluted in a low 1.054 sg. I was trying for a 1.079 sg.

My question is how can I avoid this happening next time? Should I get a bigger ss braided line, like a 3/4" one so it won't get clogged up? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Pie_Man]

That's a lot of oats, barley, and wheat. To avoid stuck or slow sparges, you could use rice hulls to help with flow, you could also sparge. Your grains may also have been crushed too finely. What size batch were you making and what did you estimate your efficiency to be?

My mash tun uses a half inch braided hose and I've not had any issues.

 

[solbes]

No input on the stuck sparge issue, I BIAB.

But in regards to your low SG, get some sugar in there if you haven't already. You can safely add 1 lb of boiled/dissolved/cooled table sugar, invert syrup, etc which will still be under 20% of fermentables. Could even go a tad higher. 1 lb of sugar will raise your SG 9 points to 1.063 and help dry out the beer to more Tripel like levels.

Also 3 lbs of flaked oats might need to be pre-cooked to get most of the sugar extracted. Thats a lot of oats my friend! Should be tasty though, I have a Karmeliet Tripel clone that has similar ingredients. Just coming into it's own here 7 months post bottling.

 

[DPBISME]

A third of your recipe has grains that have no HULLS...

Oats and wheat get "Sticky".

As stated above.... RICE HULLS.

There are some guideline when using them based on how much NON-hulled stuuf is in your mash...

I use half a pound when doing a something like this:

14.0 Lbs Wheat
6.0 Lbs Pilsner
0.5 Lbs Rice Hulls

Add them at the end of your mash,,, I think about 5 minutes
Remeber they will decrease the temp (unless you soak and warm them up prior to adding them (I boil water, soak them a few minutes and add to the wort)
If tossed in dry they will reduce your OG (so I soak them in Hot water first so they go in wet... see above.)

 

[Megaseth]

It's a tripel based on the Tripel Karmeliet. I did add 1/2 a lb of clear candi sugar. So I guess I could add some more.
It's a 5.5 gallon batch. I have my own barley crusher mill. It crushed everything fine.

So next time get some rice hulls. I'm also swapping out the 3/8" ss braid for a 3/4" one. Hopefully that will help.