Recipe Feed Back - Imperial Stout

Looking for feed back on tweaking this recipe. Any Feedback would be welcomed.

Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 7.12 gal
Brewhouse Efficiency: 62.00
Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
22.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain 77.88 %
1.50 lb Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 5.31 %
1.50 lb Wheat, Torrified (1.7 SRM) Grain 5.31 %
1.25 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 4.42 %
0.75 lb Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 2.65 %
0.75 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2.65 %
0.50 lb Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 1.77 %
2.00 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 56.5 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (30 min) Hops 7.0 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (30 min) Hops 3.8 IBU
0.50 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (5 min) Hops 1.1 IBU
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (5 min) Hops 2.0 IBU
0.75 oz Chocolate Baking Nibs (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.10 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
1.10 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 15.0 min) Misc


Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.113 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.028 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 11.13 %
Bitterness: 70.5 IBU
Est Color: 55.3 SRM

Finalized Recipe:

Est SG: 1.118
Est FG: 1.029
Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Volume: 7.12 gal
Brewhouse Efficiency: 62.00 %

Amount Item Type
2.00 lb Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) Adjunct
22.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Bel (2.0 SRM) Grain
1.50 lb Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain
1.25 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain
1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM) Grain
0.75 lb Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain
0.50 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain
0.50 lb Smoked Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain
60 min 2.00 oz Warrior [15.00 %] (60 min) Hops
25 min 0.75 oz Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [4.00 %] (25 min) Hops
15 min 0.75 oz Chocolate Baking Nibs (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
15 min 1.10 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
15 min 1.10 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 15.0 min) Misc
5 min 1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] (5 min) Hops
0 min 1.00 lb Molasses (80.0 SRM) Sugar

Yeast ECY10 East Coast Yeast Old Newark Ale
1600ml starter(from washed)
Saved cake from Pale that was kegged on Tuesday.

Well, this beer is coming along nicely.

SG approx 1.116
FG approx 1.015

Moving to secondary today. I may add some oak chips that I'll soak in laphroiag.

Beer is sitting in Tertiary now for the last few months. It looks delicious. I think I'll wind up racking to keg in March and naturally carb it so I can store it long term in the keg and bottle off it when necessary.

I'm missing some of the oakiness so I'll probably wind up adding more oak as well.

You definitely won't get anything from just .75oz of nibs, if the brewing with chocolate thread is to be believed. Recommendations there start at 5 oz up to a couple pounds.


Why are you aging soo long? Did you get lots of fusels or other off flavors in your samples?

Beer is sitting at 14% ABV...it'll take awhile to mellow out to where I want it.