Keithww
Well-Known Member
I have brewed 4 beers with SGs of over 1.120, three RIS and a Barleywine that is sitting in secondary. Now I'm thinking I want to brew a true monster. I've read the threads here and a couple of other sites and a few of the comments festered in to a plan. Based on Way, way, way over the top Sam Adams Utopia clone and scaling down to 5 gallons to the bottle, and using my 30 gallon boil kettle and a couple of 10 gallon mash tuns.
If it takes 7 gallons of wort to produce 5 gallons to bottle, that 7 gallons will have 32.75 pounds of sugar to achieve as SG of 1.234. Some of that can come from maple syrup 1.40 pound from 2 pounds of syrup.
This is what I'm thinking, boil down to to around 1.100 take 7 gallons and add to my keggle, to that I would add the hops to and boil down to 5.5 gallons. I use a hop spider so I don't loose much wort and I transfer 5 gallons in to that would give me a SG of 1.130 and 14 pounds of sugar
32.75 total
-01.40 maple syrup
-14.00 first batch
21.85 pounds remaining
That means that the remaining wort is boiled till it reaches a gravity of 1.590 or till there is 3 gallons which ever comes first, that would be canned in quart mason jars for use later. For reference maple syrup is at least 1.660
This would give me 22 pounds of sugar in 12 jars, when the beer fell in gravity I could hit the jO2, pour it in and and keep feeding until the yeast stalled. If adding the maple syrup didn't get it going I would be done.
This would allow me to stop with a final gravity closer to 1.025 if the yeast could not handle the wort. Having a few jars of thick wort can not be a bad thing. I should be able to do this without the yeast ever seeing a SG of over 1.130.
If it takes 7 gallons of wort to produce 5 gallons to bottle, that 7 gallons will have 32.75 pounds of sugar to achieve as SG of 1.234. Some of that can come from maple syrup 1.40 pound from 2 pounds of syrup.
This is what I'm thinking, boil down to to around 1.100 take 7 gallons and add to my keggle, to that I would add the hops to and boil down to 5.5 gallons. I use a hop spider so I don't loose much wort and I transfer 5 gallons in to that would give me a SG of 1.130 and 14 pounds of sugar
32.75 total
-01.40 maple syrup
-14.00 first batch
21.85 pounds remaining
That means that the remaining wort is boiled till it reaches a gravity of 1.590 or till there is 3 gallons which ever comes first, that would be canned in quart mason jars for use later. For reference maple syrup is at least 1.660
This would give me 22 pounds of sugar in 12 jars, when the beer fell in gravity I could hit the jO2, pour it in and and keep feeding until the yeast stalled. If adding the maple syrup didn't get it going I would be done.
This would allow me to stop with a final gravity closer to 1.025 if the yeast could not handle the wort. Having a few jars of thick wort can not be a bad thing. I should be able to do this without the yeast ever seeing a SG of over 1.130.