AG#32 - Kurgan's Candy (a Belgian with Duvel yeast)

[Franklin]

Kurgan's Candy

Fermentables:
Wheat Malt 2000g 42.5%
Lager Malt 2000g 42.5%
Sugar,Belgian Candy Light 250g 5.3%
Muscovardo Candy Light 250g 5.3%
Torrefied Wheat 200g 4.3%

Hops:
Bobek @ 60 mins 52g (Start of Boil)
Saaz @ 10 mins 36g

Final Volume: 15 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.067
Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol Content: 7.5% ABV
Total Liquor: 25.9 Litres
Mash Liquor: 10.5 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 28 EBU
Colour: 50 EBC - Roughly speaking!

Mash will be 90mins, Boil will be 60mins, Mash Temp will be 68c.
Yeast is cultured from a bottle of Duvel and is a 1 Litre Starter.

Lager malt, Wheat Malt, Torrefied Flaked Wheat, 1 Tsp Gypsum with thermometer stuck in it ready for the morning:

My home made Belgian (Yorkshire) Candy Sugar, LH dehydrated pee colour, RH 50/50 White Sugar & Light Muscovardo, both taken to Hard Crack:

The rest will follow tomorrow :)
*Tomorrow comes, Mash was on at 7.55am
No Mash picture as its just a mash!
Big Bag of Bobek & Some Saaz Hops:

Just Waiting for the Mash, everything prepared. Old lager yeast to use as Yeast Nutrient in the boil, Half a protafoc tablet, Scales, Thermometer, Refractometer, fully Tooled up!:

Refractometer conversion & Mash Efficiency:

End of Mash Temp, It started at 68c:

Light Straw coloured wort going into the copper:

Bobek going in at the start of boil:

I added the Lighter candy sugar after 15mins:

Then the Darker candy sugar after 30mins:

Recycling the IC coolng water to the HLT for later cleaning:

Saaz hops going in at 10mins left of boil:

OG 1061, supposed to be 1067 but I'm not bothered:

Light straw?:

Leftovers:

Some stuff going on T.watter too - https://twitter.com/Franklin

 

[Dieseljockey]

This looks very interesting :clap: I love the Belgian beers...and only last week got hold of a couple of bottles of Duvel & Chimay to harvest the yeast..as I have all the malts & hops waiting...keep us posted about the brewday..good clear photos.

You say you made the candy sugar??? a quick run down on that would be very much appreciated.

All the best for the brew :thumb:

 

[Franklin]

The Mash is on :)
I wrote up the Candy Sugar thing on my blog **************************/2010/07/22/m ... ndy-sugar/ used this how-to http://oz.craftbrewer.org/Library/Metho ... andy.shtml

 

[Dieseljockey]

Cheers...been on your links....this I'v got to try....looking forward to the rest of the post :thumb:

 

[Petros]

Wow, this looks ace! I'm a massive fan of some of the stronger Belgian ales, am really watching this to see how it turns out! :)

 

[Franklin]

All done and cleaned up, its in the FV :)

 

[rickthebrew]

another great brewday - i`ve never tried any of these type of beers but will be doing so very soon as the candied stuff looks very interesting :thumb: What would be a good beer to try ( or a few types) ?

:drink:

 

[Franklin]

I can't really help with beers recipes as I'm only experimenting, and my recipe is only very loosely following the Hopping & EBU's of a Duvel recipe.

 

[Franklin]

This mornings Yeasty Head:

:)

 

[rickthebrew]

:thumb: Thanks anyway - what would be a good belgian beer to buy from a shop? Something along the lines of what you are trying to replicate would be great to try :drink:

 

[Franklin]

I've not tried a huge selection of Belgian beer, so I'm a bit blooming uesless!

My **************************/2009/10/17/a ... ppist-red/ turned out to be a cracker and was drinking well right from 2 weeks bottled to over 6 months.

Chimay, Duvel, Leffe, Hoegarden etc are the only Belgians I've really tried just supermarket shelf stuff.

 

[rickthebrew]

:) thanks i`ll try some of these i think and hopefully brew something simular in the future

 

[Dieseljockey]

Looking good....wish I had it.. :thumb:

You guys should try all the Trappist beers....Westmalle (think that's correct).. Jupiler..L'Abbaye des Rocs.. they go on & on.

 

[rabbie]

Looks like you had a nice brew day! Simple grain bill and good hop choice, hope it turns out well.
What's your plan for fermenting this one? Are you ramping the temperature up to get attenuation?
I'll be interested to hear if you get the FG you're expecting, I'm hoping to do something similar but I'm worried it's asking a bit much of the yeast given the strength of Duvel and the OG of the brew.
Fingers crossed anyway!

 

[Franklin]

The plan for fermenting is to keep it cool for a bit (On the Garage Floor is the coolest place in the house), then I'll bring it into the utility room (which is the second warmest place in the house).
I Mashed fairly high so I won't be expecting the yeast to chew through all the sugars down to the predicted FG.
:)

 

[Franklin]

Hydro test today and its down to 1013 :)

 

[rickthebrew]

Just suppin on my first ever duvel - and its lovely, for a weighty 8.5% its clean, crisp and fruity and very delicious

 

[Franklin]

My brew tasted pretty alcoholic, not much in the way of that Belgian Flavour though... I've put the FV in a warmer place, maybe I can get a bit of 'Pear Dops' out of it.

 

[Dieseljockey]

Just suppin on my first ever duvel - and its lovely, for a weighty 8.5% its clean, crisp and fruity and very delicious

Now you know what all the fuss is about Rick :thumb: I love um...all the Belgian beers....have you tried any of the brown ones???? malty/ nutty/sweet just right...and their in the high 6% maybe 7% even 8%...

I've got a couple waiting but I want to try and harvest the yeast off them. :wha:

 

[cidergirl]

Hi,
I'm keen to know how long the candy sugar would keep, if at all, before you use it?