SNB Brewing

02/13/2017

Some upgrades to my Chapman Thermobarrel and overall upgrades to my process in general. Major thanks to Marshall Tipton for the refractometer.

09/05/2016

Putting 37 in a rehabbed barrel which was soaked in bourbon for 2 months

08/20/2016

After a 3 month primary brawl and almost 5lbs of sugar I cracked 20% and created a beast of a beer!

After breaking such a massive barrier I'm briefly sneaking out of my blogging retirement to tell the story of how it came to be.

06/22/2016

Blond = Green
Dubbel (8) = Blue
Quad (12) = Gold
so
Hex (20) = Red?

06/12/2016

Deathfire 2.0 is coming

06/11/2016

Westbennetteren 20 has crossed into 20%. After consulting my brewing mentor Shawn I set the chamber to 35° to crash out the yeast

05/28/2016

05/28/2016

After 10 weeks of feeding and being stubborn Westbennetteren 20 is officially at 19.6% abv. I just fed it another 6oz of suger that should push it into the 20% range. It's a little murky in clarity right now but nothing a month at 34°f won't solve

Cheers

SNB

03/28/2016

It was a long 8 hour from start to finish brewday but batch 4 of Black Sand Beaches is resting quietly

03/12/2016

Kegged up the BIG IPL this morning

03/07/2016

So after some discussion on Brewday and thinking about it in more depth I've decided that Westbennetteren 20 isn't a Quintuple, it's actually something more

Here is the progression of "trappist" style beers.

Single 4-6% ABV pale in color
Dubbel 6-7.5% ABV dark in color
Tripel 7.5-9.5% ABV pale in color
Quad 9.5-13% ABV dark in color

The pattern that emerges is that odd numbered beers are pale while even numbers are dark with deep red, brown and garnet hues. There is also a pattern in the abv range with little overlap

Between the high range of a quad and the lowest abv I'm targeting for Westbennettern 20 (18%) there's 5 percentage points up for grabs.

Based on that here is my proposed expansion of trappist styles
Single 4-6% ABV pale in color
Dubbel 6-7.5% ABV dark in color
Tripel 7.5-9.5% ABV pale in color
Quad 9.5-13% ABV dark in color
Quintuple 13-18% ABV pale in color
Westbennetteren 20 18-22% dark in color

As far as style names go there are actually 2 options sextuple or hexatruple

Given the fact I'm probably making many a monk roll over in their grave I'm going with Westbennetteren 20 - The Hex (hexatruple)

02/21/2016

Quick lagered Black Sand Beaches b3 now on tap