Golden Monkey Clone?

[EFBell351]

I have a request to brew a golden monkey Clone. Anybody have any experience with such a beast?

Thanks...

[swenocha]

One I've known a friend to make that was pretty tasty. Been a long time since I had Victory's version, so I can't speak to its cloney-ness, but those that had had it recently thought it was a nice representation.

12.5 lb. pils malt
0.5 lb. flaked barley
6 oz. Belgian aromatic malt
4 oz. Belgian biscuit malt
1.5 lb. cane or beet sugar

0.7 oz. Horizon 13% 60 min.
0.3 oz. French Strisselspalt pellets 4% 10 min.
0.5 oz. freshly ground coriander 5 min.

Wyeast #3522 Ardennes yeast

Mash at 150F
OG ~ 1.080

[EFBell351]

That looks like a good one.

Thank you...

Ed B.

[EFBell351]

Well I went with this recipe pretty much as is with a few minor changes. I used Crystal instead of the Strisslespalt' My local didn't have any and I wasn't going to wait for it. I used clear candy syrup instead of the plain sugar. Also I used Wyeast 1214 and a 2 liter starter (again availability issues) after an hour of aeration I started off at 67 deg and it took off like a rocket, held for a 3 days then I bumped it a degree every other day and held it at 70. I hit my temps spot on and got a OG of 1.086. Its finally settling in at 1.010 after 16 days for what should be just a hair under 10%. The color is nice and golden and smells great.

Question is to cold crash or not before bottling? Anybody?

Thanks

[Kealia]

Cold crashing is really a preference. Will it help clarify the beer? Yes. But so will time in the bottle. Personally I like to cold crash everything to start off with as little sediment as possible getting into the bottles = less to have to settle. At 10% I assume a long conditioning period is ahead so either way it should clear up nicely for you.

Good luck when it comes time to taste.

[EFBell351]

Thanks.. Yes, at least 30 days in the hole with this one. I have also got in the habit of cold crashing but I never used this yeast before. Don't want to screw this one up, rather expensive (and labor intensive) brew.

[BlackDuck]

I'm with Kealia on the cold crash....I crash everything. I figure an extra 3 or 4 days of cold temps is easy enough to get through in order to help clarify the final product.