Tripel

[nicjon]

anyone have any experience making a tripel? I'm assuming I shouldn't use my imperial juice yeast and warrior hops.

[Sir Vorlauf]

probably not.   

Though yeast (and fermentation temp) is one of the key ingredients of a tripel.   The grain bill is fairly straight forward- Pils, belgian candi sugar, and maybe some other character malts that you may enjoy (biscuit, caramel malts, etc).  Noble hops just to have balanced bitterness-  Styrian Goldings is popular.

I usually find 4 well respected recipes online and then come up with somewhat of an average.

[nicjon]

To anyone that would be interested. This was a total disaster but there were many lessons learned:

1.) Grain mill, I had it set to something small enough that if it went through the mill it was flour but a lot of it did not
2.)I have the hellfire propane burner, the main valve only needs to be cracked open if not than you it wont work properly
3) I've got to keep a better track of my notes
             A.) because I can't remember what the original gravity is
             B.) not sure how much water I used and I ended up with 7 gallons instead of 5 I was aiming for.

Hopefully you could read this and laugh I know I am.