The links below are to the threads for the AP Dubbel, in chronological order beginning with the thread suggesting it might be time for another BA Homebrewing crowd-sourced recipe (started February 28, 2018), and ending with “The How My Averagely Perfect Dubbel Turned Out Thread” (started July 7, 2018). Hat-tips to: @VikeMan for creating the polls, ingesting the data, calculating the results and incorporating them into the final recipe. @wspscott for suggesting this thread. @allthehomebrewersorpros who contributed. Please advise of errors or omissions, broken or misdirected links. Feel free to make suggestions for future “How We Got Here” threads. Another Averagely Perfect Brew? Averagely Perfect Project #6 - Pre-Poll Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #1 - ABV Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #2 - Final Gravity Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #3 - Grains/Fermentables Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #4 - Main Base Malt(s) Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #5 - Sugary Stuff and/or C-Malt(s) Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #6 - Sugar, Sugar Products, and/or Honey Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #7 - Resolve D-90/D-180 Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #8 - Cara/Crystal Malts Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #9 - Special B/Caramunich Runoff Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #10 - Vienna and/or Munich Malt(s) Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #11 - Munich/Vienna Runoff Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #12 - Aromatic/Aroma Malts Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #13 - Fermentables Combo Poll Averagely Perfect Dubbel: Yeast Pre-Poll Sidebar Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #14 - Yeast Strain Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #15 - D-90 Syrup Percentage Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #16 - Total C-Malt Percentage Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #17 - C-Malt Split Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #18 - Mash Temperature Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #19 - Mash Length Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #20 - Flavor/Aroma Hop Regions Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #21 - Flavor/Aroma Hops Preliminaries Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #22 - Final Flavor/Aroma Hops Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #23 - Bittering Hop Philosophy Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #24 - Hop Schedule Times Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #25 - IBUs Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #26 - 10 Minute Hop Qty Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #27 - Recommended Boil Length Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #28 - Fermentation Temperature Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #29 - Fermentation Temp Profile Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #30 - Temperature at Pitching Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #31 - Temperature at End of Fermentation Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #32 - Fermentation Ramp Time Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #33 - General Water Profile Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #34 - Specific Concentrations for Chloride and Sulfates Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #35 - Syrup Addition Timing Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #36 - Syrup Addition Timing Runoff Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #37 - Carbonation Level Link to the final recipe in the Belgian/French Ales section of the Recipes forum: Belgian/French Ales Averagely Perfect Dubbel - AG (w/extract + steeped grains option) The How My Averagely Perfect Dubbel Turned Out Thread
I’m willing to do this for all threads of all AP recipes I can access. Using search parameters of “Averagely Perfect” in the title returns only 5 pages or results, and the earliest thread is Poll # 23 for the NorthEast IPA (started June 21, 2016). I’m guessing the search function places limits that prevent posts/threads older than “x” from displaying in the results, or (less likely) previous AP threads don't have "Averagely Perfect" in the title. It’s not clear to me if the age restriction (if it exists) can be overcome by a regular member. If someone knows of a search workaround that will return all the AP threads, let me know.
Try searching for each project separately. For example, put "averagely perfect american IPA" (with the double quotes) in the search field, and specify VikeMan in the Posted by Member field. This should cut down on the results significantly.
Seeing as how we ended up with pretty much exactly the recipe I'd have written in the first place I think the Dubbel went really well, but more importantly I thought it was a great learning experience as well (I'd never heard of those liquid sugars before). So that's the great part, and the camaraderie of sharing. Unfortunately I also think that the Dubbel style is well focused as it is, similar to a Czech Pilsner or an English bitter. We've got a lot of styles out there that are a little more free-form and ranging so I'm wondering how "averagely perfect" those can be. I'm looking forward to more, and thanks again to @VikeMan!
The saison process was really fun and I learned a lot along the way. I think that is the main benefit of all of these recipes.
That got me headed in the right direction, thanks. I tweaked the search to "averagely perfect" in the title, by vikeman, and searched the Recipes forum only. That gave me the exact name for all the projects; more "How we got there" next week.
