Tripel the Fun Than Your Mum

One of my favourite styles of beer. The mouth feel on this beer is great.

Brewer:	Alex van den Broek		Email:	-
URL:	http://www.geocities.com/nzhomebrew/index.html
Beer:	Tripel the Fun Than Your Mum		Style:	Belgian Tripel
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	14 liters
Color:	12 HCU (~8 SRM)		Bitterness:	40 IBU
OG:	1.077		FG:	1.010
Alcohol:	8.7% v/v (6.8% w/w)
Water:	Christchurch tap water used, its very soft.
Grain:	300g German Vienna 50g German Munich 150g Raw wheat
Steep:	steeped grains at 65-70° for 50mins
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.083	13 liters
	3kg Light malt extract 200g Belgian candi sugar
Hops:	15g NZ Nelson Sauvin (12% AA, 60 min.) 10g NZ Nelson Sauvin (12% AA, 30 min.) 10g NZ Nelson Sauvin (12% AA, 5 min.)
Yeast:	Safale dried yeast
Log:	8 days primary at 20° approx 7 days secondary
Carbonation:	primed each bottle with 1 level teaspoon of cane sugar
Tasting:	This beer has a really interesting mouth-feel, its light yet creamy. At this stage (4weeks) its probably a touch to bitter. but should blend nicely in no time. The hops are really interesting and have spicy/bitter tastes as well as grapey/juicy notes too.

Recipe posted 11/30/03.