Wild Bill's ADD Stout

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viking73

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Just BeerTooled this up. But as I'm fairly new to this I have some questions. Here's the recipe:

Wild Bill's ADD Stout
13-F Russian Imperial Stout
Author: WMH

Original Gravity: 1.101 (1.075 - 1.115)
Terminal Gravity: 1.025 (1.018 - 1.030)
Color: 40.92 (30.0 - 40.0)
Alcohol: 10.09% (8.0% - 12.0%)
Bitterness: 68.5 (50.0 - 90.0)

Ingredients:
.5 lb 2-Row Black Malt
.5 lb 2-Row Chocolate Malt
1.0 lb Crystal Malt 120°L
.5 lb Roasted Barley
10.0 lb Dark Dry
3.5 oz Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 40.0 min
2.0 oz Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 10.0 min
1.0 c Coffee Beans (Espresso) - added dry to secondary fermenter
4.0 ea White Labs WLP004 Irish Stout
.25 lb Molasses
8 oz Chocolate (unsweetened) - added dry to secondary fermenter
3.0 tsp Vanilla (whole bean) - added dry to secondary fermenter

Results generated by BeerTools Pro 1.5.5



Am I better off doing a PM on the grains or just steeping them? Critique away!

I'm planning on brewing this in a couple of weeks (after I move).
 
Hi Viking. When using extract, I suggest using the lightest extract available and adding flavors, roastiness, and coloring through specialty grains. First, we don't know what is in the dark malt (aside from the base malt) and since you don't know, it makes it very hard to decide what specialty grains to use and how much.

Secondly, its analogous to all-grain brewing. Extract = your base malt. In other words, all-grain brewers start with a base malt and then add things to it. And they often start with the same base malt for a whole variety of styles. A brewer might use Maris Otter base malt for a pale ale, an IPA, a bitter, an ESB, a porter and a stout.

The extract is like the base malt - its the foundation upon which you build the style, by adding other grains and ingredients to it.

As to partial mashing or steeping, partial mashing would be fine, but I don't think you need it in this recipe, I think steeping would work. It doesn't look to me like you're needing to get fermentables out of your specialty grains, just flavors and colors.

Cheers!
 
That's what the guy at my LHBS said as well. Looks like I'll be buying a 50# bag Light DME soon!
 
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