When the De Ranke brewery opened in 1994 as part of a new wave of Belgian microbreweries, its first beer was a beer inspired by Westmalle Tripel, Orval, and brewer Nino Bacelle’s love of hops.
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Like all De Ranke beers, Guldenberg gets generous portions of whole-leaf hops—in this case, a locally grown version of the German variety Hallertauer Mittelfrüh. It also gets a long dry hopping while conditioning in the lagering tank. The recipe that follows is a homebrew-scale version adapted from information provided by Bacelle.
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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.068
FG: 1.006
IBUs: 41
ABV: 8.2%
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