La Fin Du Monde Belgian Tripel Clone Brewday | Homebrew Challenge Collab pt. 2

Who doesn't love Unibrou's La Fin Du Monde? Martin from The Homebrew Challenge channel challenged me to brew a beer without buying any yeast so I grabbed some bottles, harvested the yeast and fermented my Belgian Tripel recipe with it! *links in 'show more' for the brew I challenged Martin to and all the equipment!*

Equipment:

Pulley stuff:

Yeast Equipment:

Belgian Tripel La fin (metric below)
Belgian Tripel
8.7% / 19.1 °P
Recipe by
Flora Brewing

All Grain

BIAB (No sparge)
75% efficiency
Batch Volume: 10 gal
Boil Time: 60 min

Mash Water: 12.75 gal
Total Water: 12.75 gal
Boil Volume: 11.08 gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.062

Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.079
Final Gravity: 1.013
IBU (Tinseth): 23
BU/GU: 0.29
Colour: 5 SRM

Mash
Temperature — 130 °F — 10 min
Temperature — 145 °F — 20 min
Temperature — 155 °F — 10 min
Temperature — 168 °F — 10 min

Malts (23 lb 8 oz)
22 lb (80%) — Briess Pilsen Malt — Grain — 1.2 °L
1 lb 8 oz (5.5%) — Briess Caramel Malt — Grain — 15.3 °L

Other (4 lb)
4 lb (14.6%) — Candi Sugar, Clear — Sugar — 0.9 °L

Hops (6 oz)
3 oz (20 IBU) — Hallertauer Mittelfrueh 4% — Boil — 60 min
3 oz (3 IBU) — Saaz 3.2% — Boil — 5 min

Yeast
142.2 oz — la fin du monde harvested yeast 75%

Fermentation
Primary — 75 °F — 10 PSI — 7 days

Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

METRIC
Belgian Tripel La fin
Belgian Tripel
8.7% / 19.1 °P
Recipe by
Flora Brewing

All Grain

BIAB (No sparge)
75% efficiency
Batch Volume: 37.85 L
Boil Time: 60 min

Mash Water: 48.26 L
Total Water: 48.26 L
Boil Volume: 41.95 L
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.062

Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.079
Final Gravity: 1.013
IBU (Tinseth): 23
BU/GU: 0.29
Colour: 9.9 EBC

Mash
Temperature — 54.4 °C — 10 min
Temperature — 62.8 °C — 20 min
Temperature — 68.3 °C — 10 min
Temperature — 75.6 °C — 10 min

Malts (10.659 kg)
9.979 kg (80%) — Briess Pilsen Malt — Grain — 1.8 EBC
680 g (5.5%) — Briess Caramel Malt — Grain — 39.5 EBC

Other (1.814 kg)
1.814 kg (14.6%) — Candi Sugar, Clear — Sugar — 1 EBC

Hops (170.1 g)
85 g (20 IBU) — Hallertauer Mittelfrueh 4% — Boil — 60 min
85 g (3 IBU) — Saaz 3.2% — Boil — 5 min

Yeast
142.2 oz — la fin du monde harvested yeast 75%

Fermentation
Primary — 23.9 °C — 0.69 Bar — 7 days

Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

[TheHomebrewChallenge]

Not wanting to give away too many spoilers but... this was all TOTALLY worth the effort :-)

[jsfourdirections]

Cool to see a Canadian brewery getting their props! La Fin du Monde is an amazing tripel and Unibrou deserves all the credit they get

[NikitaVorontsov]

Yeast bottle harvesting sounds like a really cool idea, might have to try it out!

[gonbaetaphandles]

yes! Love this beer, so cool how you harvested the yeast!!

[NathanPitts]

La Fin is definitely my favorite Belgian style beer as well. Thanks for sharing this informative and entertaining video.

[brewdaddy]

I'm totally trying to harvest yeast from one of my favorite beers now. Thanks for the idea.

[robcarson]

Hi Flora Brewing. I absolutely love your videos. Congrats! I have a couple of questions from this video though. I brew on a Brewzilla (Robobrew) and have been thinking of switching to a Brew in Basket System. We cant get Clawhammer off the shelf here in Australia but there are substitutes. I noticed you didn't recirculate the mash and no sparge also. You did mention you were down a few points on OG. Is this the way you normally mash? Not criticism
just curiosity? If you want some Coopers Sparkling Ale or Pale Ale to harvest some yeast I can send you some. On all our shelves here. Pale Ale is my preference. I grew up in Adelaide South Australia not far from the Coopers Brewery and it is in my humble opinion the best commercial beer in Australia. We have kick ass craft beer too 👍👍

[JAG]

I like Unibrou's La Fin Du Monde a lot as a matter of fact I like most of Unibrou's beers

[BigEdsGuns]

Story Time(?):
I was bouncer many years ago but heard the "story" behind some beers...
La Fin Du Monde = "End of the World"
From what I remember: The last beer you would ever have on earth...

But a more interesting story.... Maudite.
Maudite = "The Damned" (A much better tasting beer IMO by the same brewer)
Bunch of Men/Loggers(?) after a long week of work would give their soul's to have a beer...
The Devil hearing this, struck a deal with the men. I will give you a FLYING canoe that will take you anywhere you please, if I can have your souls upon death. They agreed...
And they paddled their enchanted canoe on the way to the nearest "bar" flying through the air in their canoe...
On their way to the "bar" they hit a Church Steeple, and the flying canoe crashes to the ground! Killing them all before they could get a "THE DAMNED..."

I believe there is a picture on the bottle with the canoe and church on the bottle. Been a while since I have seen one...
Cheers!

[Poppy]

If you use the yeast from the bottle how do you know if it is the same the brewery used for fermenting?
I know Belgium brewers use a different bottling yeast.

[JonasFromWinden]

Which podcasts can You recommend?
You listen only podcast about beer or others too? 😉

[martyonthebeach]

Can you tell me the difference between put the sugar at beginning or at the end ?

[Japie]

Flora, thx for the great video... Just a tiny questo from a fellow home brewer... (Why) don't you sparge. Isn't that neccessary? I mean, wouldn't you get even higher efficiency?

[gunder]

Why don't you both do some sort of a collaboration with The Homebrew Network here in Melbourne?

[hobbeeswe]

Cool, I will follow, just a couple of things:

A beer at 7 AM before work?
You know that Belgians are the strangest people of Europe, right?

[GreenTiger]

HeyHey have just found your channel and really like your content :) but one question: how do you bottle that many gallons? it always takes me sooo long

[jonomakepeace]

Not sure if it's just me, but there are so many ads on this video. I got 6 in a few minutes. Not ayoba.

[martyonthebeach]

I'm from Québec. Si tu as besoin d'avoir de La fin du monde fais-moi signe.

[martyonthebeach]

Just to know, Unibroue use the Canadian belgian yeast. But for sure, your will be better for sure.

[bobdole]

Don't make videos when you're high. Please.