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Title: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: krockett on December 23, 2016, 05:15:17 PM

Hi Lads,

I brewed a Tripel with 12.5% sugar and ended up at 1.070 OG. Is it worth adding 350 grammes more sugar to get the OG up to 1.075 (bring total sugars up to 16%) or would this just make it too thin and boozy do you think?

Thanks,

Title: Re: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: Gerryjo on December 23, 2016, 05:59:57 PM

I take it you haven't added your yeast yet so rather than sugar could you not steep another kg of grains and boil for 20 mins,cool and add.

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Title: Re: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: krockett on December 23, 2016, 06:29:07 PM

WLP550 is on day 5 of fermentation. I already added .5 kg of spraymalt after I pitched the yeast to get the gravity up to 1.069 - originally it was 1.064.

Good idea though - could it work still I wonder?

Title: Re: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: delzep on December 23, 2016, 06:50:16 PM

If you finish at 1.008 thats still over 8% which is tripel territory. Adding more sugar will make it taste too sweet I reckon

Title: Re: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: nigel_c on December 23, 2016, 07:13:40 PM

I wouldn't go messing with it any more.

Title: Re: Adding more sugar to a tripel
Post by: krockett on December 24, 2016, 08:41:28 AM

Thanks lads. 8% is more than enough for me - not sure if I've made more of a Golden Strong now though. Will leave it as-is.

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Brewing Discussions => All Grain Brewing => Topic started by: krockett on December 23, 2016, 05:15:17 PM