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Walkthrough: Brewing the Brewer's Best Belgian Tripel Kit

A few weeks ago, I visited a local homebrew shop and decided to support them by picking up a Brewer's Best Belgian Tripel extract brewing ingredient kit.  I'm a big fan of the Belgian Tripel style and have yet to find a recipe that I am happy with.  The ones I've made have come out too sweet, too bitter, and often with a bitterness that doesn't match up to a genuine Belgian Tripel such as Karmeliet.   I decided to try out the Brewer's Best kit. The ingredients in the box include: 6.6 pounds of light dry liquid malt extract (CBW) 3 pounds of Pilsen light dry malt extract 4 ounces of Aromatic Malt 1 pound of what the instructions says is Belgian Candi Sugar but what was in the box was just a soft white sugar 1 ounce of Northern Brewer hops 9.6% alpha acid 0.5 ounces of UK Golding hops at 4.9% alpha acid 1 sachet of S-33 Fermentis Dry Yeast Muslin bag Bottle caps Priming sugar The brewing process described in the instructions is: Put the Aromatic Ma...