So I brewed a Barrel Aged Imperial stout that turned out very well.
I want to rebrew the beer and change the yeast for a bit of a twist, perhaps some stonefruit esters. Anybody have any suggestions for the below recipe to do so?
Pale 2-Row (UK) 14.0 lb 78 % Mash 38 3 °L
Flaked Oats 1.5 lb 8 % 33 2 °L
Roasted Barley (US) 1.0 lb 5 % Mash 33 300 °L
Chocolate (US) 0.75 lb 4 % Mash 29 350 °L
Special B (BE) 0.5 lb 2 % Mash 34 115 °L
All dark malts were cold steeped overnight then strained with the steeping liquid added to the boil kettle and the grain added to the mash tun at mashout.
Boiled for 90mins added 1.5oz of cocoa nibs at 15 and 2oz fresh ground coffee at flameout
Pitched a 4000ml starter of 1056 and hit with pure O2 for 90 seconds
Fermented at a fairly steady 65 with a lovey stop to clean the gallon of blowoff overflowing my freezer
After primary settled down and FG was steady at 1.022
racked to a king's county bourbon barrel that had added cold brew coffee with 2oz of ground coffee that was steeped overnight in fridge. Kept at room temp, pulled a sample put in the fridge for a flavor comparison. It sat in the barrel for about 10 days until the oak was becoming apparent. It needed more bourbon flavor however. Added 1/3 of a cup of king's county bourbon to the keg when beer was racked
Magnum (DE) 1.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 14.2%
American Ale Wyeast 1056 75.0%
Cacao Nibs 1.5 oz 15.0 min Boil
Coffee (Ground) 2.0 oz 0.0 min Boil
Coffee (Brewed) 2.0 oz 2.0 week Secondary
I want to rebrew the beer and change the yeast for a bit of a twist, perhaps some stonefruit esters. Anybody have any suggestions for the below recipe to do so?
Pale 2-Row (UK) 14.0 lb 78 % Mash 38 3 °L
Flaked Oats 1.5 lb 8 % 33 2 °L
Roasted Barley (US) 1.0 lb 5 % Mash 33 300 °L
Chocolate (US) 0.75 lb 4 % Mash 29 350 °L
Special B (BE) 0.5 lb 2 % Mash 34 115 °L
All dark malts were cold steeped overnight then strained with the steeping liquid added to the boil kettle and the grain added to the mash tun at mashout.
Boiled for 90mins added 1.5oz of cocoa nibs at 15 and 2oz fresh ground coffee at flameout
Pitched a 4000ml starter of 1056 and hit with pure O2 for 90 seconds
Fermented at a fairly steady 65 with a lovey stop to clean the gallon of blowoff overflowing my freezer
After primary settled down and FG was steady at 1.022
racked to a king's county bourbon barrel that had added cold brew coffee with 2oz of ground coffee that was steeped overnight in fridge. Kept at room temp, pulled a sample put in the fridge for a flavor comparison. It sat in the barrel for about 10 days until the oak was becoming apparent. It needed more bourbon flavor however. Added 1/3 of a cup of king's county bourbon to the keg when beer was racked
Magnum (DE) 1.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 14.2%
American Ale Wyeast 1056 75.0%
Cacao Nibs 1.5 oz 15.0 min Boil
Coffee (Ground) 2.0 oz 0.0 min Boil
Coffee (Brewed) 2.0 oz 2.0 week Secondary