begium pale recipe ideas

[minesa1664]

Hello guys

Found some t58 Belgium yeast in the freezer and I want to brew a pale maybe like le chouff...

Any ideas I have loads of grain including cara aroma, Abby, Vienna pils and of course Marris otter


Any ideas welcome

Cheers

Will

 

[RobWalker]

You can find a boring belgian pale ale in my signature. It's probably not even useful to you, but it was sweet and refreshing, and home brew club enjoyed it. :thumb:

 

[morethanworts]

You can get 'Achouffe yeast' in the form of WLP 550 (and the WY equivalent), but I guess you're wanting to start with the yeast you've got.

According to Roger Protz, La Chouffe has a Pilsner base with some crystal, Czech Saaz, Styrian Goldings, candy sugar and some coriander.

I'm only on AG3, but the first two were tripels, with Pilsner bases and just bittering hops. I used WY3787 which is fantastic and some candy sugar in the second brew, which had a little more residual sweetness. The abbey/abbey-style yeasts tend to like a low start and high finish (even up to 28C) to fully attenuate. I added no mid or late hops at all and it demonstrated to me just how much flavour comes from the yeast. Around 15% sugar in the grain bill is not uncommon, to get everything to dry out and get a nice low finish.

Have fun. :thumb: