All-Grain - Double-W Imperial Stout - Page 2

**r2eng** · 01-07-2009, 08:05 PM

Sure: Exported from Beersmith... I hope I have the sparge right.

**claphamsa** · 01-07-2009, 08:08 PM

thank you sir!

**claphamsa** · 02-02-2009, 07:42 PM

brewed this Saturday! yay!

moped the basement today

**r2eng** · 02-02-2009, 09:59 PM

Cool!

I just ordered grains from Brewmaster's Warehouse to build another batch... boy this ages nicely! It was a great beer with 4 months aging, but it's really smooth now.

You will enjoy it!

**claphamsa** · 02-02-2009, 10:04 PM

good, I love me my RIS' 10-50 is the bestest!

**r2eng** · 02-07-2009, 01:54 PM

This will beat the 10-50... I am a real RIS fan, and this is the biggest one I have ever had, bar none.

My next batch get's mashed on Sunday

. I am subbing Zeus and Fuggles, as I don't have any W's for hops... maybe I'll have to change the name.

PtotheL · 03-02-2009, 03:51 PM

Question for anyone who brewed this.

I'm fermenting in one of those 7.9 gallons bucket.

Will I need a blow-off tube if I'll be fermenting between 5.5 and 6 gallons of this, or should I be fine with my airlocked-lid ?

Thanks.

**r2eng** · 03-02-2009, 03:53 PM

That kind of headspace should be fine.

I ferment in a 5-gal carboy, and it needs a blowoff tube... violent yeasties having sugar orgy!

**claphamsa** · 03-02-2009, 04:17 PM

I put mine ina 6.5 and made 5 gallons... and had almost a week of blowoff!

PtotheL · 03-03-2009, 01:20 AM

phew.

That's a lot of work brewing a beer this big.

Got 11 gallons splitted amongst three 5-gallons SS brew pots.

4 hour boil later I got 5.5 gallons of 1.117 gravity wort in my bucket

I don't have any blowoff tube, so I tried sitting my bucket in a double garbage bag, with another one taped on top with a couple of air holes in it.

I know... it's ghetto and probably won't contain any spill off that might happen, but I guess it beats a kick to the face.