Based on Kel and my recent enjoyment of Belgian Tripels, I decided to make a Tripel style the next brew that I try. I purchased this kit from Northern Brewer and decided to add an extra pound of DME and an extra pound of Belgian candy sugar to add a higher alcohol level. The NB noted OG was 1.073 and I was able to get an OG of 1.089 with my additions. I knew I was going to need to have more yeast on this beer, even without bumping it above the normal recipe’s sugar amount. I was excited to try a yeast starter to super charge my yease count.
With a target OG of 1.090 and pitching one smackpack of 3787 Trappist high gravity, Mr. Malty says that I’ll need about 305 billion cells. After making my starter, using 1300 ml of water and 1.5 cups of DME, I checked my starter wort’s OG and it was 1.055. I’ve read that is pretty high and should be aroun 1.040. As a backup, I went a picked up another smackpack, without doing a starter on that pack because of time. I’m thinking that I maybe got around 220-250 billion. I decanted my starter after 16 hours and pitched the slurry with my other smackpack.
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