So in preparation for Christmas 2020 Jonny brewed up a Mince Pie inspired Big Belgian Dubbel. Packed with currants and raisins, with help from Jimmy from Unity Brewing. This classic Belgian beer is a great brew for anytime of the year, but super special for a Christmas/Winter treat.

Grab yourself the recipe kit and have a go at brewing this awesome beer that delivers that lovely rich Belgian malty number with a rum & raisin finish.

Don’t forget to head on over to the Craft Beer Channel on YouTube to watch Jonny brew this for his tips and technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHU9X58aB0

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Ingredients Included

BESTMALZ Pilsner (4000 grams)
Simpsons Munich Malt (2000 grams)
Dingemans Special B (1000 grams)
Weyermann® CaraMunich® type 1 (1000 grams)
Weyermann® Carafa Special® type 2 (100 grams)
Challenger Pellets (40 grams)
Belgian Candi Sugar Dark 500ml (1 packs)
Wyeast 3787 ABBEY STYLE HIGH GRAVITY.  (1 packs)

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Method

Beer Style (main): Belgian/French Ales
Beer Style (sub): Belgian-Style Dubbel
Batch Size: 19L
Original Gravity: 1.069
Final Gravity: 1.012
ABV %: 7.5%
IBU: 20

THE MASH
Temperature °C: 65c
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: N/A
Out time (mins): N/A

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Additions and timing:

40g Challenger (boil)
125g Raisins (boil) – Not Included
125g Currants (boil) – Not Included
200g of Dark Candy Sugar – decant some of the boring wort in the last 10 minutes, then dissolve this in the wort and add back into the kettle.

Secondary additions and timing:

125g Raisins in rum (peak krausen) – Not Included
125g Currants in rum (peak krausen) – Not Included
(total 100ml rum) – Not Included

Yeast: Wyeast 3787 ABBEY STYLE HIGH
Fermentation temperature/steps: 18c for 3 days, then allow to free rise for 10 days

Comments:

So in preparation for Christmas 2020 Jonny brewed up a Mince Pie inspired Big Belgian Dubbel. Packed with currants and raisins, with help from Jimmy from Unity Brewing. This classic Belgian beer is a great brew for anytime of the year, but super special for a Christmas/Winter treat.

Grab yourself the recipe kit and have a go at brewing this awesome beer that delivers that lovely rich Belgian malty number with a rum & raisin finish.

Don’t forget to head on over to the Craft Beer Channel on YouTube to watch Jonny brew this for his tips and technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHU9X58aB0 And of course part two the drinking 

Brewing this beer…..

You will require 250g of currants and 250g of raisins, some good quality rum (roughly 100m) to add to this all grain recipe kit.

Jonny bottled his beer and primed the bottles using the remaining candy sugar.

The total grain bill for this brew is 8.3kg, so it is certainly not for the faint hearted and will push many all in one systems to their limits.

Note: The recipe kit is a revised recipe by Jonny after tasting the beer so don’t be surprised if the quantities in the video don’t match this kit.

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