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5/20/17 Belgian tripel Added the yellow balanced water profile from brunwater spreadsheet at last minute, mashed in at 3:30pm. hit mash temp of 150 and mixed in a generous portion of rice hulls, totaling 1 lb. First running is 1.092, started to stick towards the end, added more rice hulls before adding batch sparge water. Second running is 1.060 Third is 1.039 PreBoil gravity was 1.069,. Boil was uneventful. Added 4 lbs of sugar at beginning. added all hop additions w\ spider. I wonder about the effectiveness. Ran wort through the chiller for lat 10 min of boil. Recirculated into the boil kettle for a while until I had the carboys ready… Trying to let the trub settle out in the carboys before racking to spiedel and aerating and pitching. 45 minutes after flameout the wort is half cleared. OG is 1.090 Racked to spiedel and lost a bit more than a gallon, probably 1.33 gallons. total volume approx 9 gallons. Pitched 3 cns of imperial yeast trippel doubel. Checked on it after 6 days of fermenting… should have had a blowoff tube, top of fermenter is covered in thick yeast slurry! there was at least 7 gallons of headspace! checked gravity after 7 days it is at 1.016, abv at 9.8. Still has krausen, scooped some off and stole some liquid with plastic beaker to add to troublesome BGSA Fixed the BGSA, fermented down another 8 points. 6/4/17 gravity at 1.010, taste is good. hinking about maybe carbing with corn sugar in one keg. 8/1/17 So, I realized that I havent updated this appropriately. Ended up kegging two kegs of this, force carbing both. I like this beer alot. It has a very good flavor at 50+F. Just the right ammount of yeast added spice and fruitiness. Bottled off about 1/3 of total yield, wax dipped the 22’s in burgandy wax. Final notes on this run I like it better than westmalle tripel, and la fin du monde. Color was darker than a typical tripel, not sure if that’s from the electric element or the amount of carravienne malt. Either way I don’t care. Head was almost non existant. Carbonation was not low, not high but I thought it was fine… but there was almost no head at all. Need to look into solutions to this issue, the beer needs head.