Brew Day Tommorw! Westy 12 Clone.....Your thoughts??

That's a lot of caramunich and black malt for a recipe that's attempting to clone a beer that likely contains neither. I'd also recommend using a good dark candi syrup, and not the crappy dark candi rocks that most homebrew shops sell.

 

Try this. I haven't compared the real deal with this clone, but supposedly it's good.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f73/pious-westvleteren-12-style-quad-multiple-147815/

 

Go on the Candisyrup website, it has a killer Westy 6 8 and 12 recipe.

 

I'm doing a Westy 12 clone next week. Formulated my own recipe from info in "brew like a monk", came up with the following:

OG 1.090
FG 1.011
22 SRM
37 IBU

Mash 60 mins at 154F, ferment at 68, free rise to 82-84 over course of 5 days, lager for 8-10 weeks at 50F, prime and bottle.

42% dingeman's pale malt
42% dingeman's pils malt
6% cane sugar
5% dark candi syrup (d90)
5% extra dark candi syrup (d180)

.85 oz 8% northern brewer at 60 mins
.85 oz 5% styrian goldings at 30 mins
.85 oz 5% hallertauer at 15 mins

Wlp530 abbey ale yeast

Then found this page and the candi syrup recipe, and found that it was pretty close. I'll likely use their hop timings and adjust amounts as necessary. And I'll plan to mix the d90 and d180 syrups to match the srm and percentages also (will probably use the 90 since I have some left from a dubbel I brewed a week or so ago. ).

In brew like a monk, the recipe for westy 8 specifically mentions sucrose, or table sugar in addition to candi syrup. It's likely that it is used in all of westvleteren's beers. Table sugar is missing from the candisyrup recipe, although I don't think it would make a difference one way or the other in flavor, or even body for that matter as it's such a small addition. May only add enough to shore up the gravity if necessary.

Plan to re pitch a generous amount of fresh slurry from the dubbel. I'll keep you all posted on how it turns out!

Slickrick22, how'd your turn out? Have you been able to age any of your bottles? What recipe did you end up using?

 

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Ok, thanks for the help. Just to clarify, simply hitting "reply" to a post doesn't automatically alert the poster?

 

Actually it does, as long as you quote them, which you did. For some reason, I thought you hadn't.