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Subject: Lambic Digest #966 (October 19, 1996)
Lambic Digest #966 Sat 19 October 1996
Forum on Lambic Beers (and other Belgian beer styles)
Mike Sharp, Digest Coordinator
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bitterness in Westmalle Tripel (STROUDS)
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: STROUDS at cliffy.polaroid.com
Subject: bitterness in Westmalle Tripel
In Lambic Digest #960 (October 09, 1996) Bill Coleman (MaltyDog at aol.com) asks
about bittering in Westmalle tripel:
> Does anyone out there have any specifications for Westmalle
> Trippel. I'm particularly interested in the IBU's. Michael Jackson
> mentioned, in passing, in the "Great Beers of Belgium" book that
> the bitterness units of the Trippel was in the 40's. On the other
> hand, the AHA style guidelines lists a maximum bitterness of 25 for
> a Trippel. Since Westmalle basically invented the Trippel style, I
> should think the style guidelines should include them.
I looked through the literature I have. No reference to bittering level in
West. tripel except as noted above in Jackson's Great Beers of Belgium book
which indicated 35-38 EBU's. Frankly I doubt this number, it sounds a bit high
to me; this is an impression from drinking the beer, however I don't have any
hard numbers to back it up.
I have brewed quite a few tripels as have other members of my homebrewing club.
In general we have aimed for bittering in the 25-30 IBU range and this seems
about right. I think that a 40IBU tripel would seem very unbalanced.
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Here is a recipe that ought to get you in range:
Tripel (3 gallons)
7 lb Pils
3 oz wheat malt
3 oz cara pilsner malt (DC)
1 lb of sugar
4.8 AAU's noble hops (60 minutes)
4 g coriander seed - 15 min
4 g orange peel - 15 min
smidge of Saaz in finish
Westmalle yeast
SG 1080
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As a note, LaChouffe, which has some tripel similarities (OG ~1080, pale beer,
some sugar and spicing in formulation) is reported to have ~30 EBU's. Jim
Busch posted his version of this beer and recommended 25 IBU's.
As for Westmalle dubbel, check out Wheeler & Protz's book "Brew European Beers
at Home" - available from CAMRA. Pretty good guesstimations at formulating
some clasic beers (Protz must have gleaned some inside info on some of those),
including Westmalle dubbel. They list 20 EBU's of bitterness for this
beer. If you don't have the book and can't find it, let me know and I will
post the dubbel recipe.
Good Brewing,
Steve
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strouds at polaroid.com
stivnpam at worldnet.att.net
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PS - on lambic, I'm back from a Belgian vacation and hope to post some
observations when I get around to writing it up. Had lots of good geuzes - the
shocker is that the one of the best was the Selection Lambic from Belle-Vue. I
was astounded that they make such a quality product!
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