Saturday, October 17, 2009

Brew #100 is in the works

I finally found some time to sit down and plan my brew 100. It will be an imperial stout aged over oak. I'm shooting for 10% ABV. I am going to model my beer after the John Courage Imperial Stout recipe found in Clone Brews.

Here is my planned recipe:
Partial Mash
2.5 lbs Marris Otter malt.
12 oz British crystal malt
10 oz British chocolate malt
3 oz roasted barley
3 oz black malt

Boil
3.3 lb dark liquid malt extract
1 lb cane sugar
5 lbs dry malt extract
1/3 lb molasses

Hops (61 IBU):
1 oz Target (12%) 60 mins
1 oz Northern Brewer (10%) 60 min
1 oz Willamette 15 mins
1 oz Fuggles 1 min

Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale from a big starter with yeast nutrients.

During secondary fermentation, some steamed oak chips will be added. I'm not sure how much I will add.
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3 comments:

  1. Monsieur C and Madam KOctober 19, 2009 at 2:31 AM

    Steamed oak chips? What is that?

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  2. ChemgeekOctober 19, 2009 at 7:18 AM

    Just oak chips that have been steamed for sanitation purposes.

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  3. RyanJune 30, 2011 at 12:03 AM

    I have recently discovered the magic of using oak chips in beer. I recently did a milk stout and racked it onto 15g of French oak chips, leaving it for two weeks. The depth the French oak chips added to the flavour was amazing!

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