Brewday 27th August. Pere Fouettard Belgian Ale

[tubby_shaw]

Finally brewing my Christmas beer

I give you Pere Fouettard Belgian Ale

23L OG 1.073 7.1% abv 29 IBU

5.4kg pale malt
500g wheat malt
200g amber malt
150g caramalt
600g blended honey (Added with Saaz hops)

50g Bobek 5.3% aa 90 minute boil
25g Saaz 3% aa 15 minute boil

90 minute mash at 65C, batch sparge, 90 minute boil, Bobek first wort hops
This is to be fermented using Chimay yeast, harvested from Chimay Red.

The donor beer for the yeast

The yeast starter

The grist

Mash on

 

[corby_brewer]

hope all goes well for you TS. :thumb:

 

[Oblivious]

Best of luck with it :thumb:

 

[llannige]

Like the look of this one. :thumb:

 

[Nic_P]

Nice one, hope all goin well :thumb:

 

[tubby_shaw]

Thanks for the good wishes
It's going ok so far :pray:

Not much of a temperature drop over 90 minutes :party:

A bad picture of the first runnings, it's a lovely golden colour :grin:

 

[ChrisG]

This is gonna be a good yin!

 

[tubby_shaw]

Coming up to the boil

Full boil underway

 

[tubby_shaw]

The Saaz hops, honey and 1/4 of a protafloc tablet

In go the Saaz and protofloc (a bit steamy :lol: )

And the honey, the jars were rinsed out with boiling water.

 

[tubby_shaw]

It's all done :thumb:
Boil over, cooled and dropped into the fermenter.

Filth

The wort isn't as clear as usual today

Yeast pitched, lid snapped on and airlock filled with iodophor solution.

To be honest it wasn't a successful day :wha:
I got 23L at an OG of 1.061 which I will put down to being the end of a sack of malt and my inefficient batch sparge.
Also my hop strainer had rotated during the boil, exposing the holes, so I couldn't filter properly
Looking on the bright side I will hopefully experience a better quality beer from the lower efficiency, also being only 6% abv instead of 7% should mean I cant drink more before falling over :party:

 

[Wez]

A great set of pics TS - looking forward to hearing how it turns out. I fancy a honey ale now. :

 

[A T]

Looking good TS, i have my yeast starter on the go to have a crack at this one :thumb:

 

[Vossy1]

Gr8 pics t_s, hope the brews a good'un :thumb:

 

[Franklin]

excellent stuff, bring on Christmas

 

[tubby_shaw]

Got around to bottling this today.
Primed it with 105g of cane sugar.
So now I have 51 bottles of varying size

 

[Vossy1]

That's a lot of hard work :clap: it'll be worth it

 

[tubby_shaw]

Thanks V :thumb:

I forgot to mention, the final gravity was 1.008 giving an abv of 7% :drink: :drunk:
Hence the mix of bottle sizes, I don't fancy "having" to drink pints of this all the time :lol:

 

[ChrisG]

I really need to get something put together for xmas. Was thinking of an IPA style.

Not sure yet.

Good one Tubby!

How do you find using 105g of sugar to prime works out? Really fizzy?

 

[Wez]

Cracking Job :thumb:

 

[A T]

I hate bottling :twisted: but on the other hand it is very rewarding, well done Tubby :clap: