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Rex Banner Ale

Brewer:	The Birmingham Beer Barons		Email:	-
Beer:	Rex Banner Ale		Style:	Belgian Strong Ale
Type:	All grain		Size:	6.5 gallons
Color:	45 HCU (~20 SRM)		Bitterness:	33 IBU
OG:	1.099		FG:	1.018
Alcohol:	10.4% v/v (8.2% w/w)
Grain:	16 lb. American 2-row 4 lb. Belgian Munich 1 lb. Belgian Aromatic .25 lb. Chocolate Wheat
Mash:	70% efficiency
	Mash for 60 min at 147F to produce a dry beer.
Boil:	120 min minutes	SG 1.075	8.5 gallons
	1 lb. Belgian Candi Syrup 1.25 lb. Cane Sugar
	A beer of this nature benefits from an exceptionally long boil. 2 hours if you can muster it. So don't add hops until one hour into it. Add more water late in the boil if you need it to maintain volume. HBD's recipator has no way to account for adding sugar at the end of the boil, rather than the beginning. This affects the gravity of the wort in the boil, which affects hop utilization. The sugar should be added at the end of the boil, not the beginning, and thus this beer is 36 IBUs, not 33.
Hops:	2.5 oz. Kent Goldings (3.8% AA, 60 min.)
Yeast:	Wyeast 3787 | Trappist High Gravity
Log:	Add the cane sugar when fermentation starts to slow down, to give the yeast something new to feed on and continue drying out the beer.