Overview
Info: 5 gallon Abbey of Leffe: Bruin Abbey Ale clone extract kit from Austin Homebrew
Brewed: September 29, 2004
Bottled: November 7, 2004
OG: 1.067 (from kit instructions, not measured)
FG: 1.017 (from kit instructions, not measured)
abv: 6.5%



Ingredients
Grains
  • 0.25 lbs. Aromatic
  • 0.25 lbs. Chocolate Malt
  • 0.25 lbs. Biscuit
  • 0.25 lbs. Munich Malt
  • 2 oz. Honey Malt
Adjuncts
  • 9 lbs. Pale Extract
  • 0.5 lbs. Dark Candi Sugar
Hops
  • Bittering: 1 oz. Pride of Ringwood
  • Flavor: 0.5 oz. Styrian Golding
  • Aroma: None
Yeast
  • White Labs Belgian Abbey



Brewing Notes
Steeped the grains in 150F water for 15 minutes. 60 minute, 3 gallon boil. Candi sugar and malto dextrin added with the extract at the beginning of the boil. All hops were in pellet form. Flavor hops added with 15 minutes remaining in the boil. Fermentation took a long time to get started, which is strange given the huge amounts of sugar in this thing. Two weeks after brewing, the yeast was still plodding away, with slow but steady fermentation. Fermentation went on for a month or so. I'm not sure why it took so long. Two weeks after bottling, the beer is carbonated, although it seems like there's a slight off-flavor to things. Bleck. Undrinkable after a few weeks in the bottle. Definitely some kind of contamination. I'm thinking the old yeast was to blame. James' first beer is a dud.