Arrogant Bastard Mini-Mash Clone

Arrogant Bastard Mini-Mash Clone

6 pounds Liquid Malt Extract
5 pounds 2-row Pale Malt
2 pounds 120L Crystal Malt
1/4 cup Black Patent Malt (or Carafa III malt)
1 ounce Chinook hops
2 ounces Warrior hops
Irish Moss
White Labs WLP001 or WLP002 or Wyeast English Ale Yeast

Put this in your mesh grain bag:
5 pounds 2-row Pale Malt
1.5 pounds 120L Crystal Malt
1/4 cup Black Patent or Carafa III malt

Add 2 gallons of water at 162 degrees F to your igloo cooler.

Add the mesh bag full of grain and make sure it’s completely submerged.

Cover the igloo. Leave this alone for 60 minutes at least.

Then, heat up another 2 gallons of water to 170 degrees this time. Once it’s at
this temp, turn it off and remove from heat.

Open the valve on that igloo and empty the mash water into your brewing kettle.

Get as much of that out of there as you can.


Open the top of the Igloo, add the other 2 gallons of water you heated to 170.
Splash it all over the grain bag. Don’t burn yourself. Cover the igloo. Let it
sit for 10 minutes.

Then, open the valve and start emptying that into your brewing
kettle until you’ve collected as much as your brewing kettle can handle.

Add your liquid malt extract and stir until it’s all part of the wort.

Bring it to a boil.
Once the boil starts, add 3/4 ounce of Chinook hops
15 minutes from the end of the boil, add 1 tablespoon Irish Moss
10 minutes from the end of the boil, add 1/2 ounce of Warrior hops
1 minute from the end of the boil, add 1/4 ounce Chinook hops



White Labs WLP001 or WLP002 or Wyeast English Ale yeast.

Once primary fermentation is complete, pull the yeast off the beer. Then add 1
ounce of Warrior hops (this is your dry hop) and allow to sit, undisturbed, for 1
full week.

Bottle with 3/4 cup of corn sugar and allow to age for 4-6 weeks or more.

I assume the 1/4c of black patent in the directions is the right amount, and the 1 lb in the ingredient list is wrong (a pound would make the beer black as night, and probably undrinkable)

You may want to edit your recipe...someone who brews that with a pound of black patent and thinks they're getting AB is going to be, ummm, surprised.

1/4 Cup or Pound??? Most of use use lbs! (Orfy uses kg's, but that's his problem)

I would think that this is really asking for 1/4 lbs of black patent. I've not had AB before though so I could be wrong. I wonder how much 1/4 cup weighs. I think I have some black patent somewhere.

Bike N Brew said:

I assume the 1/4c of black patent in the directions is the right amount, and the 1 lb in the ingredient list is wrong (a pound would make the beer black as night, and probably undrinkable)

You may want to edit your recipe...someone who brews that with a pound of black patent and thinks they're getting AB is going to be, ummm, surprised.

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Bike N Brew, you are correct, it calls for 1/4 CUP not lbs, my mistake! The list at the top of the recipe was more of a shopping list, thanks for catching that! Edit in progress!

Just opened my first bottle of this last night (01/11) and it turned out GREAT!