Fist bump to this recipe! I scaled the exact recipe posted by John51277 up to 11gal and brewed it 12/31/15.
*Mashed in the mid 150s for 90 mins. Fly sparge. 90 minute boil
*Oxygenated wort w/ pure O2 on the brewday an morning after
*Pitched ~1000B cells of BRY97 from a one week ramped starter
*Fermented 14 days at 62deg ambient (1.092 to 1.018)
*Kegged directly from primary. Geez, talk about some gunk in the bottom! No washed yeast from this batch.
*Soaked two 4 inch oak half-spirals one in 5oz Rum and the other in 5oz Knob Creek for 2 weeks or so during PF
*Kegged on day 15 into cornys. Each keg received 6oz of a 1.040 DME starter and one of the oak+booze mixes. Also added 4oz Blackstrap molasses to the rum oak keg for a Jamaica Breakfast Stout edition (aka JBS)
After 14 days in the keg in my basement, both are nicely carbonated and the oak is just starting to peek through. The JBS definitely has a rum profile, and the KBS seems to be on course to match up with its namesake in several months. Planning to age this beer in kegs another month or so then bottle-gun into 12s and 22s.
*Mashed in the mid 150s for 90 mins. Fly sparge. 90 minute boil
*Oxygenated wort w/ pure O2 on the brewday an morning after
*Pitched ~1000B cells of BRY97 from a one week ramped starter
*Fermented 14 days at 62deg ambient (1.092 to 1.018)
*Kegged directly from primary. Geez, talk about some gunk in the bottom! No washed yeast from this batch.
*Soaked two 4 inch oak half-spirals one in 5oz Rum and the other in 5oz Knob Creek for 2 weeks or so during PF
*Kegged on day 15 into cornys. Each keg received 6oz of a 1.040 DME starter and one of the oak+booze mixes. Also added 4oz Blackstrap molasses to the rum oak keg for a Jamaica Breakfast Stout edition (aka JBS)
After 14 days in the keg in my basement, both are nicely carbonated and the oak is just starting to peek through. The JBS definitely has a rum profile, and the KBS seems to be on course to match up with its namesake in several months. Planning to age this beer in kegs another month or so then bottle-gun into 12s and 22s.