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Avery Brewing The Reverend Recipe

Belgian specialty malts make The Reverend the perfect beer for homebrewers who love malty beers.

Avery Brewing The Reverend Recipe

Avery’s brewers include imported Belgian specialty malts, which makes The Reverend the perfect beer for homebrewers who love malty beers. See what our blind-tasting panel had to say about this sinfully smooth quadrupel.

ALL-GRAIN

OG: 1.093
FG: 1.018
IBUs: 24
ABV: 10%

MASH/GRAIN BILL

15.5 lb (7.3 kg) pale malt (2-row)
10 oz (283 g) aromatic malt
5 oz (142 g) Cara-20 malt
5 oz (142 g) Cara-45 malt
5 oz (142 g) Special B malt

HOPS/ADJUNCT SCHEDULE

1 lb (454 g) Belgian dark candy sugar at start of boil
1.25 oz (35 g) Sterling [6.00 %] at 60 minutes
0.25 oz (7 g) Sterling [6.00 %] at 30 minutes
0.75 oz (21 g) Sterling [6.00 %] at knockout

DIRECTIONS

Mash at 148°F (64°C) for 90 minutes to ensure adequate conversion. Then sparge and boil for 60 minutes, following the hops schedule and adding the candi syrup at the start of the boil. Chill and pitch the yeast at 68°F (20°C) and hold for first half of fermentation, then allow the temperature to rise as high as possible to promote attenuation.

YEAST

Westmalle (Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity or White Labs WLP530 Abbey Ale)

Recipe has been scaled to a 5.25-gallon (19.9-liter) batch size into the fermentor and assumes 72 percent brewhouse efficiency.

The Best Belgians (October-November 2015)
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