IrishLass

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Fat Bastard

We're switching to AG, and decided to use up the rest of our extract ingredients before the switch-over. We had the ingredients for a Fat Tire clone, but decided to substitute the hop schedule from an Arrogant Bastard clone to satisfy my boyfriend's hop addiction.

We used
12 oz Crystal 20L
8 oz Belgium Munich
8 oz Carapils
4 oz Victory
4 oz Biscuit
1 oz Chocolate

6.50 lbs LME
3 oz Chinook

90 min full boil w/ late extract addition and 1 oz hops at 90, 60 and flame out. Our OG was 1.043... looking forward to the last hurrah before we go to AG.

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Primary: Cream of Three Crops (AG), EdWort's Pale Haus Ale (AG), Fat Bastard, EdWort's Apfelwein, 1 gallon CranRasp Lemonade, 1 gallon Yooper's Welch's Wine, 1 gallon Mojito experiment
Secondary: None
Drinking: Most likely
Bottled: 90 Shilling clone, Summertime Lemon Wheat, Irish Stout, Cream Ale, White Chocolate Pale Ale, Double IPA#1, Irish Red, Oatmeal Stout, Blackberry Stout, Summer Lager, Mexican Lager, Hard Lemonade, EdWort's Apfelwein, Hoppy's 420 Double IPA.

CharlosCarlies

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I never did much extract brewing, but if I had to guess, this is going to be way way too bitter unless I'm missing something.

Chinook is generally between 13-15% AA and adding at 90 and 60 would crank out a ton of IBU's (I don't have beersmith near me so maybe someone else can calculate it out). W/ that low of an OG, there's just not going to be enough of a malt backbone to balance all the bitterness.

If you don't have any more LME, I'd just do a 60 min boil and maybe do 1 oz at 30 min, 10 min, and flame-out. To be honest though this still may be too many IBU's. I suggest playing around with beersmith/promash a little.

IrishLass

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We thought it may be a disaster, but we have friends who will make it disappear even if we don't like it. Plus, who can pass up the opportunity to name a beer Fat Bastard Thanks for your reply, we're still noobs.

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Primary: Cream of Three Crops (AG), EdWort's Pale Haus Ale (AG), Fat Bastard, EdWort's Apfelwein, 1 gallon CranRasp Lemonade, 1 gallon Yooper's Welch's Wine, 1 gallon Mojito experiment
Secondary: None
Drinking: Most likely
Bottled: 90 Shilling clone, Summertime Lemon Wheat, Irish Stout, Cream Ale, White Chocolate Pale Ale, Double IPA#1, Irish Red, Oatmeal Stout, Blackberry Stout, Summer Lager, Mexican Lager, Hard Lemonade, EdWort's Apfelwein, Hoppy's 420 Double IPA.

llazy_llama

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3 oz Chinook???

*cough cough cough*

I'm choking on just the thought of that IBU rating. Man, I hope you enjoy it, but that's not for me.

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fretsforlife

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hmmm.. interesting, although there is already a wine called "Fat Bastard" . Let us know how it turns out

CharlosCarlies

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Hey I love the name! The grain bill looks pretty tasty as well...there's just not enough pale malt to hit the OG needed to balance this monster out.

IrishLass

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What would the ideal OG be? We've not strayed far from recipes, so this is a good learning experience.

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Primary: Cream of Three Crops (AG), EdWort's Pale Haus Ale (AG), Fat Bastard, EdWort's Apfelwein, 1 gallon CranRasp Lemonade, 1 gallon Yooper's Welch's Wine, 1 gallon Mojito experiment
Secondary: None
Drinking: Most likely
Bottled: 90 Shilling clone, Summertime Lemon Wheat, Irish Stout, Cream Ale, White Chocolate Pale Ale, Double IPA#1, Irish Red, Oatmeal Stout, Blackberry Stout, Summer Lager, Mexican Lager, Hard Lemonade, EdWort's Apfelwein, Hoppy's 420 Double IPA.

QueenCityALER

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At least 1.060 would be a good start.

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CharlosCarlies

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This might help if you haven't seen it before: