Old Bulger Imperial Stout-Brewing with REALLY old extract!

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Sooooo, I found 3 old cans of crappy extract... Cooper's Mexican lager, Cooper's Wheat, and John Bull Brown. Dates are 2009. Gonna make an Imperial Stout partial mash and see what happens!

 

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Mash Ingredients

8.0 oz - Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
2 lb - Oats, Flaked
8.0 oz - Chocolate Malt
4.0 oz - Special B Malt
12.0 oz - Chocolate Malt
8.0 oz - Roasted Barley
6 lb - Pale Malt (2 Row) US
1 lb - Brown sugar

2.00 oz - Warrior - First Wort Addition (81.3 IBUs)

3 lb 12.0 oz - Wheat Liquid Extract - Late extract addition: 15 min (16.3%) - 8.0 SRM
3 lb 12.0 oz - Pale Liquid Extract - Late extract addition: 15 min (16.3%) - 8.0 SRM
4 lb - Dark Liquid Extract - Late extract addition: 15 min (17.4%) - 17.5 SRM

2.00 oz - Centennial - Steep 30 min (13.9 IBUs)

I seriously thought about using all 3 packets of the dry yeast that came with the kits...
But decided on US-05 instead

 

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Brewing this now on my new setup.

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Here's the ancient extract!

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Cold steeped dark grains

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I made this dark Belgian sugar when I started brewing. About 8 years ago! It's going in with a pound of dark palm sugar.

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Nice rolling boil at full power on the induction cooktop

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I just tapped this and it's...not horrible! It's not a great beer, but I expected it to be a whole lot worse. I think this could actually be good a year from now!

 

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I bottled some of this from the keg and took it to a club event. Got several people to taste it (a couple BJCP judges [emoji16]) without telling them the story and people thought it was delicious! I expected this to go into the off flavor tasting and it's actually starting to come together and taste pretty freaking good!

 

[deadwolfbones]

Well done, sir.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

Well done, sir.

Thank you sir! Cracked me up and totally pushed the boundaries of what CAN makes a good beer in my opinion.

 

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