Belgian Double
Brewing No Comments »I took this recipe from The Brewmasters Bible and the recipe is from the Boston Brewers Supply Company.
Ingrediant List
6 pounds light malt extract (Golds)
1 pound light dme
1 pound dark Belgian candi sugar
1 pound CaraMunich malt
4 oz biscuit malt
4 oz Special B malt
0.5 oz Saaz hop pellets (I used whole hops)
2 oz Hallertau hop pellets (I used whole hops)
1 tspn Irish Moss
Belgian Abbey yeast culture (I used White Labs pitchable tube)
3/4 cup priming sugar
The prep was very straight forward. I brought 2 gal of water to just below boiling and added all of the malt to steep for 30 minutes. The caramalt added a nice deep, reddish color to the wort. After that I added the dme first, then the candi suger and then the malt extract. I brought all of this to a boil and after 40 minutes added the bittering hops. A miscalculation on my part left me with 1 oz of Hallertau hops and 1 oz of Saaz hops so I put in all of the Hallertau and 1/2 oz of the Saaz to begin with. After the 40 minutes, I added 1 tspn of Irish moss and 15 minutes later added the 1/2 oz of Saaz hops for the final 5 minutes. When done, I scooped out as much of the whole hops as I could and then added the wort into the fermenter bucket through a strainer. The temp was about 75 deg so I took a gravity reading, 1.050 and then added the yeast and stirred up for a bit.