3rd Brew - Belgian Golden Strong

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Brew:  Belgian Golden Strong Ale (Duvel Clone)
Date:  01/20/2007
Weather: Sunny/Windy, 23° low, 35° high
Recipe: PDF | BTP
Pictures: Click here to see the pictures
Notes:
  • Used two yeast starters
    1. 1 Liter from re-cultured Duvel yeast from 4 bottles and Dried light pilsner extract
    2. 1 Liter from White Labs golden ale yeast (570) and Dried light pilsner extract
  • Forgot to check Duvel starter for health before pitching
  • Forgot to add the Irish moss
  • Forgot to sanitize oxygenation tube before putting into wort
  • Original Gravity higher than planned (1.090 instead of 1.074)
  • Boil reduced wort to 9 gallons instead of 10 gallons
  • Opened fermentor on 2/3/06 to add more yeast

Statistics

Original Gravity: 1.090 
Efficiency: 88.83%
Final Gravity: 1.007 
Attenuation: 92.22%
Alcohol By Volume: 11%

Detailed Brewing Summary

Time Description
08:45 am Started HLT (Approximated)
09:30 am Start dough-in (Approximated)
09:50 am Started Herms
  Raising temp to 140 for first mash step
10:06 am Step 1 Start
  160°(HLT)/140°(Mash)
10:09 am Began adding more water to HLT
10:15 am 146°/138°(Mash)
10:30 am 153°/145°
10:45 am 149°/142°
11:00 am 146°/140°
11:06 am Step 1 Complete
  100% Gas on HLT for climb to 2nd mash step (150°)
11:17 am Step 2 Start
   153°/149°
11:30 am 156°/150°
11:38 am 157°/150°
11:47 am  Step 2 Complete
  100% Gas on HLT for climb to sparge temp (170°)
11:54 am 170°/160°
12:04 pm 175°/170°
12:11 pm Sparge Start
  HLT gas slowed to maintain temp
12:24 pm Air-gap in pump/sparge line
12:36 pm 6 Gallons of wort in boil
  180°/148°
12:44 pm 8 Gallons of wort in boil
  155°/160°
12:48 pm Steve has a new hat (he wet his first purple one)
12:54 pm 10 Gallons of wort in boil
  below gauge/150°
12:57 pm Boil burner affected by previous brew boil over
  Replaced burner with HLT burner for boil
01:00 pm 11.5 Gallons of wort in boil
01:02 pm Gravity of runnings = 1.01 (right on target)
01:03 pm Boil Kettle burner started @ 125°
01:06 pm Boil Kettle @ 135°
01:13 pm Boil Kettle @ 160°
01:28 pm Boil Kettle @ 205°
01:31 pm 90 min boil started @ 212°
01:59 pm 1st hop addition
02:37 pm 2nd hop addition
03:03 pm Chilling started with immersion chiller
03:06 pm Boil Kettle @ 150°
03:09 pm Boil Kettle @ 120°
03:13 pm Boil Kettle @ 100°
03:30 pm Boil Kettle @ 70°
  Gravity 1.090
03:56 pm Fermentor full, oxygenation complete

Fermentation Schedule

Date Time Description
01/20/2007
04:40 pm
Placed Fermentor in basement, Temp @ 72°, OG 1.090
01/26/2007
07:15 pm
Gravity reading: 1.050
02/02/2007
06:00 pm
Gravity reading: 1.041
02/03/2007
08:38 pm
Added new vile of yeast and energizer
02/17/2007
09:30 am
Gravity reading: 1.030. Bubble every 20 secs
02/23/2007
07:30 pm
Refractometer reading: 12.5-12.75 Brix (1.0255-10273)
  07:35 pm
Added two .5 oz containers of Beano
02/28/2007
07:54 pm
Refractometer reading: 10.25-10.5 Brix (1.0103-1.0119)
03/04/2007
06:45 pm
Hydrometer reading: 1.007. Strong sulfer taste.
    Fermentor doesn't fit in fridge for cold conditioning. Going to use cornys.
03/04/2007
08:45 pm
Put 5 gallons into corny and stored in kegerator
03/05/2007
07:15 pm
Added remaining 5 gallons to carboy and placed in fridge
03/31/2007 05:00 pm
Attempted to filter using pump. Carbonated beer from fridge caused lots of foam
    Ditched filtering and just split beer.

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