Chimay Red clone Recipe

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Chimay Red clone

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All Grain
5 Gallon(s)
6.5 Gallon(s)
90 min
75%
All Grain homebrew recipe. This homebrew recipe uses the following ingredients: Pale Ale - BE, Belgian Aromatic - BE, Crystal 90L - UK, Belgian Dark Candi Sugar - BE, Chocolate - BE, Styrian Goldings Hops, Willamette Hops, White Labs Trappist Ale WLP500 Homebrew Yeast.

Fermentables

81% - Pale Ale - BE
9
38
3
Mash
9% - Belgian Aromatic - BE
1
37
32
Mash
4% - Crystal 90L - UK
0.5
33
90
Mash
4% - Belgian Dark Candi Sugar - BE
0.5
36
275
Late
1% - Chocolate - BE
0.16
30
340
Mash

Hops

Styrian Goldings
1.5
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
5.3
26.7
Styrian Goldings
1
Pellet
Boil
30 min(s)
5.3
13.7
Willamette
1
Pellet
Boil
10 min(s)
5
6.1

Yeast

White Labs Trappist Ale WLP500
77%

Other Stuff

No other stuff in this recipe

Mash Steps

No mash steps in this recipe

Special Instructions

1.
90 minutes boil
2.
Mash 60 minutes at 154 degrees
3.
.75 cups of priming sugar per 5 gallons. You may add a teaspoon or 2 of priming sugar if you want more carbination
4.
Put candi sugar in with 10 to 15 minutes as not to burn it.

Tasting Notes (1)

Brewing-in-the-ROX

Tasted on 4/20/2016 by Brewing-in-the-ROX

Notes:

Probably the best all around beer brewed yet. It is the beer that I get asked most if they can have another. Will be very good over summer sitting on the patio. Really turned out well.

Recipe Facts

Chimay Red clone
  • 5.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.50 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 90  min Boil Time
  • 1.064 OG
  • 1.015 FG
  • 46.5 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 0.73 BG:GU
  • 24.9° SRM Color
  • 75% Efficiency
  • 6.3% ABV Alcohol
  • 215 per 12oz Calories
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