This stout is now 2yrs old and now finally finished and drinkable, Thought I'd share it here as this is the only forum I can talk about it on without Mods deleting it :shock:
An All grain brew Called Black Death
Batch Size: 40.00 L
Boil Size: 48.17 L
Boil Time: 90 min
Mash Time 120 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00 I'm expecting more than this, as the last Imperial hit around 74%
Ingredients
18.00 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.0 SRM)
3.00 kg Amber Malt (65.0 SRM)
2.00 kg Barley, Flaked (1.7 SRM)
2.00 kg Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM)
1.40 kg Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM)
1.00 kg Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM)
160.00 gm Northdown [7.90 %] (90 min) Hops 33.8 IBU
300.00 gm Magnum [12.00 %] (90 min) Hops 96.3 IBU
40.00 gm Northdown [7.90 %] (0 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep) Hops -
2.00 kg Brown Sugar, Dark (50.0 SRM) Sugar 6.80 %
1.00 kg Sugar, Table (Sucrose) (1.0 SRM) Sugar 3.40 %
Est Original Gravity: 1.163 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.036 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 16.2 %
Bitterness: 130.1 IBU Calories: 800 calories per pint
Est Color: 86.5 SRM Color: Bloody Black
The WLP 099 starter is well under way all ready. I have my new 60ltr Drum that will condition this in along with a large bag of toasted oak chips
Now I just need nothing to go wrong on brewday and squeeze all that grain and 56ltr of water somewhere
80ltr mash tun
Yeast going in
Explosive ferment
Once this was fermented out it was racking into another drum and sat and aged on oak chips for 1 yr then went into a freezer and removed half it's volume Yep it's now at 32% abv and still 20ltr of it 15ltr went into Kegs to age again and 5ltr went back into the freezer and came out at 52% abv or 96% proof. Best dam whiskey stout I ever tasted and got 2 1.5 ltr Jack daniel bottles full of it :dance: