Belgian blonde ale recipe suggestions?

[Paddyg84]

Tasted a lovely Belgian blonde ale earlier around 6.5%abv anyone any suggestions of recipes I could try to taste like the one I bought?

 

[strange-steve]

Most belgian beers have a simple grain bill, for a blonde you want about 85% pilsner malt, and about 5% each of wheat malt, aromatic and table sugar. Then bitter to around 25 ibu with any noble hop. The most important thing is to use a quality yeast, wlp500 would be great.
What was the beer you had?

 

[Leon103]

I have brewed the Greg Hughes recipe and that was nice

 

[Paddyg84]

Most belgian beers have a simple grain bill, for a blonde you want about 85% pilsner malt, and about 5% each of wheat malt, aromatic and table sugar. Then bitter to around 25 ibu with any noble hop. The most important thing is to use a quality yeast, wlp500 would be great.
What was the beer you had?

Thanks very much. Was a gauloise blonde ale from lidl. Have a Belgian witbier in the fermenter which I'm excited about.

 

[ezraburke]

Just bottled up a Belgian Golden Strong last night - it was an experiment in step-mashing and i utilised the BIAB method.. Recipe below for 10l worth:

Fermentables:
3.75kg Pilsner
500g Candi Sugar

Hops:
50g Styrian Goldings
30g Saaz

Yeast:
wyeast 1388

Finings
1 x Whirlfloc

Step mash started with 15l at 58c for 30mins, up to 65 for 1.5hrs then mashout at 76c for 30mins.

OG was meant to be 1.080 but due to overzealous boiling i managed to nip it at 1.110. So, 8% became 12%. Honestly, it smells lovely and tastes delicious. Going to crack it in about 3 weeks and see how the flavours have mellowed out.

 

[Nicknacknoo]

http://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/index.php?searchStr=belgium+blond&_a=viewCat&Submit=%C2%A0

try this its awesome

Nick

drinking Old perculier
primary octoberfest beer
secondary hoppy ipa
conditioning me own made up bitter

 

[Keats]

Step mash started with 15l at 58c for 30mins, up to 65 for 1.5hrs then mashout at 76c for 30mins.

Do you use a boiler with thermostat to hold the temperature for each step, just keep an eye on a thermometer in a stock pot or some other method? I'm planning to do a Belgian blonde and a dubbel next but only have a stock pot on a gas cooker.

 

[strange-steve]

Do you use a boiler with thermostat to hold the temperature for each step, just keep an eye on a thermometer in a stock pot or some other method? I'm planning to do a Belgian blonde and a dubbel next but only have a stock pot on a gas cooker.

If you can't do a step mash then don't worry about it, with modern malts it's not a necessity and I'm not sure it makes any real difference.

 

[ezraburke]

Do you use a boiler with thermostat to hold the temperature for each step, just keep an eye on a thermometer in a stock pot or some other method? I'm planning to do a Belgian blonde and a dubbel next but only have a stock pot on a gas cooker.

Kettle with thermometer over the stove. Raised the temp according to beersmith's timings. Easy peasy!

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[ezraburke]

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[Keats]

Thanks for the replies. I was going to just do a single step for the reason you say strange-steve but ezra's method sounds pretty straight forward so might give that a try.

 

[Paddyg84]

Thanks guys some interesting looking recipes for me to try.

 

[BeerCat]

Most belgian beers have a simple grain bill, for a blonde you want about 85% pilsner malt, and about 5% each of wheat malt, aromatic and table sugar. Then bitter to around 25 ibu with any noble hop. The most important thing is to use a quality yeast, wlp500 would be great.
What was the beer you had?

WLP570 any good for this recipe? Made 3 strong Belgians for Xmas recently using this and samples were very promising. Would like to do a normal strength beer with this yeast.

 

[strange-steve]

WLP570 any good for this recipe? Made 3 strong Belgians for Xmas recently using this and samples were very promising. Would like to do a normal strength beer with this yeast.

Wlp570 would be perfect for a belgian blonde :thumb:

 

[Brightonnik]

Sorry to hijack this thread but I'm planning out a Belgian blonde and in beer smith there doesn't seem to be an option to add candi sugar. Or am I being blind!