How To Make The Classic La Chouffe Belgian Blonde Beer at Home
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2019
- This is one of my rarely vlogged experiments, I don't usually bother unless it's a tried and tested recipe that I want to share but I picked up the camera on the off chance and I'm glad I did!
This is a surprisingly simple recipe for a classic Belgian Blonde Ale, I researched a few books and ended up with this, I hope you enjoy the video and please let me know if you have any questions.
Recipe:
La Chouffe V1
Belgian Golden Strong Ale
7.9% / 14.6 °P
Recipe by
Homebrew Griffo
All Grain
Grainfather
72% efficiency
Batch Volume: 25 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Mash Water: 17 L
Sparge Water: 18.58 L
Total Water: 35.58 L
Boil Volume: 31.58 L
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.038
Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.060
Final Gravity: 1.000
IBU: 17
Color: 6.3 EBC
Mash
Temperature - 65 °C - 60 min
Malts (5 kg)
5 kg (83.3%) - Avangard Pilsner Malt - Grain - 3.3 EBC
Other (1 kg)
1 kg (16.7%) - Sugar, Table (Sucrose) - Sugar - 2 EBC
Hops (100 g)
50 g (13 IBU) - Saaz (Whole) 2.5% - Boil - 90 min
25 g (3 IBU) - Saaz (Whole) 2.5% - Boil - 15 min
25 g (0 IBU) - Saaz (Whole) 2.5% - Boil - 1 min
Miscs
5 ml - Lactic Acid 80% - Mash
50 g - Coriander Seed - Boil - 5 min
Yeast
1 pkg - White Labs WLP570 Belgian Golden Ale
Fermentation
Primary - 20 °C - 14 days
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After reading a few different La Chouffe clone recipes I settled for this one and just tasted it last night and was amazed at just how close it was to the real deal. Thank you for posting this video and very well done! I will definitely be making more. The only changes I made was adjusting the grain bill for my efficiency and I used a quarter of the coriander seed as I was worried it would overpower the taste. Great beer. Cheers man!
That's awesome Johnny! Thanks you for giving it a go and sharing your thoughts! This has made may day! 😃🍻
I really enjoy your videos - keep up the good work!
Nice one again Griffo. I always know it’s going to be a good day when one of your videos pops up. Cheers mate 🍻👍🏻 and thank you.
Cheers mate, very kind! 👍🍺
good video, cracking looking beer, i'll need to try this recipe, cheers
Oohh. I love La Chouffe. Will be trying this!
Brew day on the Grainfather follows straight after the (sort of) review! Cheers!
Got a few mates absolutely bugging me to do a Belgium beer so I think you might have given me the solution. Thank's Kelvin
Very good
Great video Griffo, I especially enjoyed the part where your eyes follow the drip down to the floor while chucking down outside. lol 17:02
Thanks for sharing your brew day, cheers!
Haha I didn't notice that! Well spotted lol. Cheers
When you can confidently brew in slippers and socks with a hole in the heel then you know you have skills, impressive and interesting stuff bro, cant wait to sample some more of your brews
Gazlarr! you of all people had to spot that didn't you! Hahaha Cheers Bro! x
Wonderful looking brewcave you’ve got there.
Cheers Rob!
Great video, thanks for posting this. I'm on the way to brewing this in a few days. I'm the UK too...so hard water. Do you have any specific water profile for this?
Great video nice to hear a Welsh accent,will be back next year to do some riding. Are you going to invest in a mill, and what grain crush are the suppliers using.
Hey griffo, always really enjoy the vids keep it up! I find with the GF even a couple of handfuls of rice hulls in the mash really help the recirculating and helps it clean up nice... Also.. what are those kviek bottles you had in shot when measuring the hops! 🤔😆 Looks interesting!!
Cheers Andy! They are just some experiments with left over wort. Nothing worth sharing..... yet 🤫😉
Hey griffo. I like how your spargeing stage is setup. Do you get good extraction of sugar from the grain with your sparge arm? I want to try something similar myself..
Nice vid mate. I’m doing this tomorrow! I’m using a Grainfather recipe somebody else drafted up. Candi sugar, pale ale malt. Styrian goldings as well as Saaz, but with 15g coriander seeds. Hoping it’s anywhere near close!!!
Hope it turns out well mate, happy brewing!
Where do I find the recipe? Thanks 👍
How different would it be to brew a la Chouffe Houblon which I like even more :) Great vid, cheers mate!
Followed your recipe,I reduced the coriander swap the caster sugar with clear Belgian candy sugar,swap yeast with Abbaye Belgian Lallemand.
I compare with the original and I'm absolutely impressed.
Thanks
Great news! Thanks for the feedback 👌🍺
how much coriander and candy sugar did u put in? cheers
Hi Griffo thanks for posting this I love your vids and La Chouffe so will be having a go at this one. Quick question if you don’t mind. I see you didn’t use a hop spider or a bag but your wort was clear in transfer and didn’t appear to get stuck. Is there anything else you are doing to help get the results you have?
Thanks
Joe
Hi Joe, thanks for your comment. I use Irish moss as finings and I believe that the leaf hops act as an additional filter (as long as there aren't too many of them! ) 😂Cheers
Did you only use 1packet of yeast for a beer of that strength. I would of thought 2 packs or a good size starter
If you want to get closer, you need to use the Ardennes yeast (WLP545/Wyeast 3522/ Omega OYL-024)
Awesome, thank you!
Hi, I really enjoyed watching your video!
I saw how you let the wort ripple from some height into the fermenter at approx. room temp. Do not fear oxidation? Or, are you doing this on purpose?
By the way, cool background music.
Thanks buddy, Yes I do this on purpose, you want to introduce oxygen prior to fermentation, the yeast need it. It's after fermentation you need to avoid contact with oxygen to avoid oxidisation
Hi Griffo- looks like an amazing beer and great recipe! Looking forward to giving it a try. I see you used a bag of sugar. I bottle my brew and use sugar drops for carbonation as I don't have kegs. Do you think I could do this instead of adding the bag of sugar during the cook or will this really change the result? Thanks so much mate. Your brew house looks like a great setup.
Looks like I misunderstood the recipe - I see now the sugar is a replacement for usual candy sugar which is seperate from carbonation sugar - cheers
Hi Ben, sorry for the late reply, toy are correct, the sugar is for the brew as well, cheers
La Choooofff :D Good vid. I'll give this one a bash myself. How long after primary did you keg it? Is this a beer you can drink soon after kegging and force-carb or does it need time to condition?
I left it for 2 weeks in primary, kegged for a week then started "Sampling" 🍻😜
Hi great video, looking forward to making this. Love La Chouffe. Just one question and excuse me if daft, in your recipe, you refer to 1kg of "Other" grains? What else did you add?
Malts (5 kg)
5 kg (83.3%) - Avangard Pilsner Malt - Grain - 3.3 EBC
Other (1 kg)
Cheers!
Hi Gavin, that would have been the 1kg of Sugar I believe. Cheers
@@HomebrewGriffo Awesome, thank you for getting back to me :) Great looking forward to tasting this brew! Cheers!
Man... I wish you took the time to add imperial measurements for your friends out in the states.... either way thanks for posting, I'm going to give this one a go (after I convert all the measurements to what we use here lol), la chouffe is one of my favorites and it's gotten significantly harder to find since the pandemic.... cheers!
Haha Cheers mate, let me know how it turns out!
Do you buy your grain bags Pre milled? If so that can cause efficiency issues and possibly some of the problems you have here. I’ve read that a lot of the husk can settle in bottom of the bag. Just a thought. Like the vids. Keep it going Cheers!
Yes I do buy them in pre milled, good call! Cheers Michael
That proper pronountiation cracked me up 😂
So, is your given recipe corrected with that slightly difference in IBU?
Gonna try it soon ;) Lovely beer & recipe, thanks for upload!! Good luck with that stubborn pumpkin!!Cheers mate!!
Ah good point! The recipe below isn't adjusted for the IBU difference. I would add a touch of bittering hop at the start just to increase the IBU by a bit. Cheers
Currently on day 10 of fermentation with this recipe, excited to bottle and try it soon. Just wondering how long you recommend bottle conditioning and allowing the beer to mature? I’ve read that high percentage Belgians benefit from longer bottle conditioning times. Cheers
I still have some bottles of this leftover (accidentally) and it’s still great but Ive found not much benefit after 12 months with this recipe - maybe leave for 3 months? if you can! 😂🍺
@@HomebrewGriffo Cheers man, bottled yesterday. Looking forward to it
@@HomebrewGriffo Well, I tried my first bottle today after 2 weeks bottle conditioning, have to say it turned out great! Very like la chouffe but spicier and with a stronger afterburn. My head retention is quite poor but I think that’s due to the amount of priming sugar I used. Nice mouthfeel. Overall a great first attempt. 7.5/10 anyway :)
Hi mate, did you crush the coriander or just chuck it it in whole?
Hi David, I crushed them 👍
@@HomebrewGriffo Thanks mate
Where to source 'Avangard Pilsner Malt' ?
There are many other brands available in most online hb stores, any good quality pilsner malt should be fine
What do you like to use more, hop pellets or bell's? 😋
Pellets nowadays, more versatile for storage and dry hopping 👍 Although I am growing my own hops too 🍺
@@HomebrewGriffo thank you, 😁 im thinking like you about growing some hops in my garden but i dont know what to pick 😂 maybe cascade and magnum. What did you pick?😋
@@alekschanna I currently have successfully growing Saaz, Fuggles and Cascade 👍
Are you sure about 50Gr Coriander Seed ? do you boil these unbroken ?
Yeah boi! Wanted a big hit of coriander, I crack them 1st
May be it was 5gr?
I brewed once a saison with 20gr of seeds and the coriander was extremely overpowering even after adding 5gr/l dry hop with Sabro
When is your next video bro, been over 2 months!
Hi Aidan, I'm still here bud. Hoping to get a brew on this weekend and will make sure I get the camera out 😜 Cheers
I think the difference in color can be explained with you using regular sugar instead of candy sugar.. It doesnt really matter though.
Thank you!
tried it but the koreander didn't gave flavour for my beer...... or it was old or i need to crush it :( but a hell of a triple it was :)
Always best to lightly crush the corriander seeds to release the flavour, yes, the base triple is a nice beer! 👍
Homebrew Griffo did you do that for this one ? Didnt see it in the video ? Giving it another try tomorrow
Where are you Griffo..... Missing you.....
Hi Peter, thank you - I'm still here planning the next brewday 😉🍻
Great stuff. Looking forward to your next video...
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what the fuck, who sneezes on camera?
You ok hun? I don't recall sneezing, just used a sound effect. Snowflake.