OP - food for thought, have you thought about adding your sugars through primary additions? This is the method Dogfish Head uses for their 120 minute IPA - it sounds slightly intimidating however believe me, if I can do it - anybody can. Simply brew your big beer and pitch an American Ale strand yeast built up in a huge starter, let it go for a couple of days, then once a day (the DFH120 clone calls for twice) you sanitize everything, decoct around 2 cups of wort, stir in your sugar additive for that day, then carefully pour it back into the primary. Day 1-2 build up another starter using the Whitelabs Super high gravity yeast so by day 3-4, you can pitch that into your primary. You only have 2lbs sugar up there, that could be split into 8 small additions, or 4 if you wanted.
I would need the support of a more knowledgeable member on my next statement however I feel constantly feeding the yeast sugar and bombarding your wort with a massive starter of WL-1099, you'll be able to get that FG down out of the 20's. The problem with these big beers or at least to me is the sweetness. My 120 was very sweet - good at cold temps however a temp drop in the glass would bring out the sweetness and alcohol.
Keep the yeast hungry, keep them eating, keep them working.
Anyhow, my recommendations or things to consider:
Sugars:
- decocting wort and adding sugar additions daily into primary, pitching a second yeast (w/ starter) 3-4 days in to fermentation
Hops:
- Move your Nugget from 30 to 60, then move your Columbus from 30 to 10. Consider cutting backon a bittering hop, perhaps the NB. I would also recommend another ounce (or 2) at the end of your boil, say 1oz Cascade at 7min and 1oz Columbus at 3min
- Consider dry hopping (1-2 ounces, Cascade and Willamette had always gone well together for me)
Good Luck! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with in the end.
Also, as for a label (just thinking about this) you should find a font online, something really creepy, print some flat black labels then in white lettering apply the following to it centered:
11-11-11
Nothing else, no names, no ABV or brewdate, just the numbers. Something about that would just be creepy, and kind of badass - like the beer
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Cheers!