How big is your kettle? You'll need a fairly large kettle to brew AG, especially this recipe with all that volume pre-boil. You may want to look into building a picnic cooler mash tun (or mash tun design of your choice) before diving into AG. It'll be very hard to both mash and boil in the same kettle, especially if the kettle is smaller than 30 quarts. That's the size of my kettle and sometimes just isn't big enough.
26 quarts. Ya that probably won't work.
What about....using 6-7 bottling bucket as mash tun? Or is it not well-enough insulated...
Sorry for hijacking the thread. Last question I swear!
Oh yea, a 6.5 gallon boil pot isn't nearly enough for AG. It might work for some other, lesser recipes but not this one . Sometimes when I want more malt flavor and/or a lighter beer I halve the 2 row and call it the Irritant Bastard. I have a converted keg and turkey fryer for my boiler, and I highly recommend it. You get to play with fire and boil-overs just get hosed off.
That said, I need to make this one again. I have enough grains to make 25 gallons, I need to get started!
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I cant do all grain yet so I switched the 2 row to LME (11.5 lbs) and steeped the specialty grains in a bag. I also retained about 10 grams of the last chinook addition for dry-hopping in secondary (5 days) Looks and smells just like the real deal, I cant wait!
I just drank a bottle of the oaked version and I would say the hop character was floral with a background of pine, I've never used chinook but the wiki says it's spicy? As far as malt character I'd say toasty and caramel with a bit of toffee in the background, so I would tend towards no special b.
Edit: Guess I should clarify, maybe 120 but probably no 150.
I cant do all grain yet so I switched the 2 row to LME (11.5 lbs) and steeped the specialty grains in a bag. I also retained about 10 grams of the last chinook addition for dry-hopping in secondary (5 days) Looks and smells just like the real deal, I cant wait!
- OMFG!!!! Your carboy is going to explode, lol. -
Yeah i made a blowoff tube out of my siphon hose and put the end in a 10" cookie 1/2 full of water. I pitched an hour before the superbowl and when it was over, there was about 2 inches of foam in the carboy. it blew up so bad that night that the next morning it overflowed my cookie jar all over the counter with foam and wort. I woke up like YEEEAAAHHH! but the wife was pissed! "look at all this!" "it stinks in here!" lol just bottled sunday night 2/21. would anyone recommend aging or will it be close right away?
I am drinking this after 2.5 weeks in the bottle and it's easily the best beer I have made. It's not really like an Arrogant Bastard, but it's damn good.
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Anyone tried adding another hop addition of 1/2 oz at 20 minutes and throwing 1/2 oz in at flame out? Think it would be a bit more arrogant.
Mine is such a smooth drinker that I wouldn't tinker too much. Maybe a flame out addition or a dry hop to add a tad more nose.
Jamil did a radio show on cloning this beer and the first thing he established was that THIS recipe is not even close. Boy, this is a good beer though.
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. Sometimes when I want more malt flavor and/or a lighter beer I halve the 2 row and call it the Irritant Bastard. I have a converted keg and turkey fryer for my boiler, and I highly recommend it. You get to play with fire and boil-overs just get hosed off.
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