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Big Red Christmas Truce

208 calories 20.2 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: Belgian Pale Ale
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.046 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 84% (brew house)
Calories: 208 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 20.2 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Friday December 12th 2014
1.063
1.014
6.5%
33.8
11.8
n/a
n/a
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
16 oz Candi Syrup - Belgian Candi Syrup - Dark16 oz Belgian Candi Syrup - Dark 32 80 9.1%
7 lb United Kingdom - Pale 2-Row7 lb Pale 2-Row 38 2.5 63.6%
1 lb German - Rye1 lb Rye 38 3.5 9.1%
1 lb German - Pilsner1 lb Pilsner 38 1.6 9.1%
1 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 10L1 lb Caramel / Crystal 10L 35 10 9.1%
11 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
1 oz Hop Union - German Spalt1 oz German Spalt Hops Pellet 4.3 Boil 60 min 15.33 33.3%
1 oz Fuggles1 oz Fuggles Hops Pellet 5.5 Aroma 12 min 8.22 33.3%
1 oz Sterling1 oz Sterling Hops Pellet 7.9 Aroma 10 min 10.21 33.3%
3 oz / $ 0.00
 
Yeast
White Labs - Belgian Style Ale Yeast Blend WLP575
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
77%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
68 - 75 °F
Starter:
Yes
Fermentation Temp:
72 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 113 B cells required
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Target Water Profile
Balanced Profile
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
80 5 25 75 80 100
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
3 gal Infusion -- 145 °F 60 min
4.5 qt Fly Sparge -- 185 °F 45 min
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 1.75 qt/lb 4.38 17.5  
Mash volume with grains 5.18 20.7  
Grain absorption losses -1.25 -5  
Remaining sparge water volume (equipment estimates 4.15 g | 16.6 qt) 4.54 18.1  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Volume increase from sugar/extract (early additions) 0.09 0.4  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 7.11 g | 28.5 qt) 7.5 30  
Boil off losses -1.5 -6  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.11 -0.5  
Post boil Volume 5.5 22  
Going into fermentor 5.5 22  
Total: 8.91 35.6
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

We'll toast the centennial of the ‪#‎ChristmasTruce‬ with our own version of German-English-Belgian-influenced ale. The beer itself is designed to be friendly and accessible. It will have representative characteristics of flavor, mouth-feel, body, yeastiness, bitterness, and aroma that would have been familiar to everyone on the Belgian front line that Christmas Eve 100 years ago.

It should represent an un-melancholy and language-transcendent catalyst to reminisce about homes far away and provide a means to share connections with lands and people to which the men on both sides of the trenches dearly hoped to return.

It should have encouraged those who shared it to wish the best to their temporary comrades who, on the following day, dutifully went back to assuring that they never did return to those far away homes.

War is hell. Good beer shared with friends helps to remind us why.

Mash in at 145 for one hour
Fly sparge at 185 for 45 minutes with direct heat to 190 on boil kettle
Boil for one hour
Add dark candi syrup at 45 minutes
Crash to 72 and pitch

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