A.L.C.Y. Brew Session - Imperial Tripel Partigyle

Well, our fourth brew session took place for Ales and Lagers Carbonated with Yeast (A.L.C.Y.) brew club. Here are a couple pics. I wish I would have taken more but I was also taking video and being busy working on an Imperial Triple Partigyle brew.



This is my set up and this was when I first got there. You can see Geno in the background with his three tier system too.



This was the mash of the Imperial Triple. We packed in almost 50lbs of grain for the partigyle and I think it could have held another 5 lbs of grain easily! That's a shitload of grain! After mashing it I immediately started to vorlauf because it took almost 20 minutes to get a nice clean vorlauf going and by that time I was ready to sparge and collect.

The first runnings out of it were coming in at 1.100! That's what I wanted to hit but then I added another 4 lbs of sugar into the end of the boil and bumped it up to 1.170, which is a bit much so I plan on diluting it with some well aerated water in a couple of days.



And here are all the spent grains from everyone's mashes! After each person unloaded we all sampled the grain to see how much sugar was left. It was an interesting experiment. That's a lot of grain! And here's my recipe for the partigyle if you're interested:

40.00 lb Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) Grain 90.91 %
4.00 lb Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 9.09 %
3.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (90 min) Hops 45.3 IBU
1 Pkgs Trappist Ale (White Labs #WLP500) Yeast-Ale

And like I said, I added 4 lbs of corn sugar to the end of the Imperial Triple, so don't forget it if you try this recipe.