10.10.10 Recipe Discussion Thread - The HBT Anniversary Series

[Yuri_Rage]

Originally Posted by Brandon O

10.10.10 Old Speckled Hen Imo.

IMO - no clone brews. The *-*-* recipes should be originals.

How's about a bit of Munich to sub for a bit of that massive 2-row bill?

[Chriso]

I would be OK with some Munich, I was just keeping it simple.

[jacksonbrown]

OK, nothing specifically mentioning certain malts, although in the 8 recipes, many of them favor Vienna and Munich malts pretty heavily. 20% for both is actually somewhat standard. As well as 10% crystal in most recipes and a small amount of chocolate malt in some.

[Orfy]

Crystal 55/65 is a crystal malt middle of the range normally made from Maris Otter.
Nothing to do with CaraMunich II

[Saccharomyces]

I'd use 8oz crystal 60. But that's me. This recipe looks solid. Nice job.

Scottish ale is one of my favorites so I'll brew this one up for 10-10-09 whether we do this for 10-10-10 or not. I'll be dropping in some Lagavulin 16 when I do mine. Yum!

[l3lackEyedAngels]

Being that this batch could possibly be consumed in October, why not make it an oktoberfest... or is that already off the table?

[eschatz]

great idea, i was just thinking that someone should start formulating on the 10-10-10. Thanks Chriso!

[Chriso]

An Oktoberfest would be "all right".... but is it really epic? I mean... the 6.6.6 brew, the Rye IPA, was apparently the bizzomb, especially a year later... Someone took a keg of it with them to the GABF gathering, and all the big HBT dawgs were raving about it. So now I want to brew the 6.6.6 when I find time. Similarly, the 8.8.8 RIS is freakin' epic. It is the epitome of a RIS, and is super delicious. The Barleywine, although too early to tell, is GUARANTEED to be epic once 9.9.9 rolls around. I strive to make 10.10.10 just as epic as the others, and while I love the idea of an Oktoberfest, I just don't see it working.

BUT.

That is why this thread is here. Give me an epic Oktoberfest recipe and I will cheerily and gladly bow before thee! (That goes for you, Brewpastor, if you're lurking out there). I tried to think of one, and the definition of the style is imposing a few limits I just can't work around. I don't know if an "Imperial Oktoberfest" would be any good, either.

Also good to note, so far it seems that most of us involved have taken great strides to make these recipes as approachable (for high-gravity brews, anyways) as possible... hence no lagering. It could be an Oktober-fast Ale... But I don't know whether that would age well, especially over 2 years. A Strong Scotch? Definitely.

Like I said. LOVE the inspiration, just can't figure out how to make it work. Maybe one of you have the key?

[BierMuncher]

Originally Posted by Chriso

An Oktoberfest would be "all right".... but is it really epic? ...

Not really.

One of the things I like about these recipes is that they are beers you can't just walk into the local (insert big local grocery chain name here) and buy two or three 6'rs from different major brewers off the shelf.

These should be hard-to-nearly-impossible-to-buy beers in my opinion.

[Saccharomyces]

I want to do an Imperial Pilsner sometime... But we need to stick with ales since not everybody can lager (or wants to.. fridge space is better for kegs ).

Seems like an imperial Oktoberfest would just end up being a Doppelbock. Those are sooooo corner gas station, get-them-in-cans these days.