This is a reconstructed recipe, since Brewtarget silently dumped my notes before I had a chance to type them up. Sigh.

Trying another tripel, this time with blackberries. Yum. I'm going to call this batch Blackberry Tripel until a better name becomes apparent.

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Ingredients

  • 13.00 lb. US Pilsner malt
  • 1 lb., 2.5 oz. cane sugar
  • 1 lb., 6 oz. light brown sugar
  • 3.00 oz. East Kent Goldings hops (6.4% A.A.) at 90 min.
  • 1.00 oz. Czech Saaz (4.5% A.A.) at 75 min.
  • 1.00 oz. Czech Saaz (4.0% A.A.) at 60 min.
  • 1.00 oz. Czech Saaz (4.0% A.A.) at 45 min.
  • 1.00 oz. Czech Saaz (2.9% A.A.) at 30 min.
  • 1.00 oz. Czech Saaz (2.9% A.A.) at 15 min.
  • 1 pouch White Labs WLP570 - Belgian Golden Strong Yeast.
  • Addition of 20 Aug 2022:
  • Priming sugar at bottling, 3 May 2023:
    • ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar

Procedure

Mashed in a grain bag in the ten-gallon brewing pot. Mashed ninety minutes at 149℉, then drained and sparged and boiled for ninety minutes, starting timer only after the hot break, adding hops at 90, 75, 60, 45, 30, and 15 minutes; chilled with the wort chiller, aerated by pouring through the straining sieve into a six-gallon bucket. Took the gravity, corrected; it was low, so I added sugar to bring it up. Aerated more, repeatedly, by beating the surface with a wire whisk. Let sit to aerate for an hour, whipping several times with whisk, then pitched the yeast and popped in an airlock.

Brew day: 5 July 2022
Predicted original gravity: 1.084
Measured original gravity: (not recorded)
Estimated IBUs: 93.5
Predicted final gravity 1.021
Predicted ABV: 8.9
Bottling day : 3 May 2023
Final gravity: 1.000
Estimated ABV: 11%

Yield:

  • 28 x 12 oz. beer bottles
  • 12 x 22 oz. beer bottles

Total: approx. 600 fl. oz., or about 4⅔ gallons.

Notes and Observations

  • 2022-08-20: Added a can of blackberry puree to the bucket.
  • 2023-05-03: Bottled, yielding about 4⅔ gallons of approx. 11% beer in green-capped bottles.