Jeepnbrew
Well-Known Member
I live 5 mins from Left hand brewery and LOVE the lefthand imperial stout. I would love to make a clone.. Anyone tried it or have a recipe?
ASk the brewer! Most micro breweries are very cooperative with homebrewers. They won' give you exacts but a pretty close recipe usually. Only problem is if they happen to use a proprietary yeast strain in which case it can't help to ask for a Quart of slurry!
It's a tie for me between this one and Founder's Breakfast Stout. Yummy!
I think the 8-8-8 RIS is very similar to the Left Hand but is a little bit less roasty. If you sub roasted barley for some of the chocolate malt in the 8-8-8 I think it'd be really close.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/easy-partial-mash-brewing-pics-75231/
For a small PM I use a paint strainer bag and just mash in a pasta pot on the stove. For larger PMs I have used a 5 gallon converted cooler with a braid. With the pot method I just heat a few gallons in the boil kettle and tea bag the grain bag in it before tossing the grain, then add the mash liquid before boiling. That gives an effective enough sparge to get 75-80% efficiency every time.
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