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My buddy and I have been wanting to brew a russian imperial stout for a while so we sat down and came up with a recipe, I was hoping we could get any input as to how the grain bill looks...we're still in the process of figuring out the hops portion. Row 2 Pale Malt 17 LB 2 OZ Chocolate...

Thanks everyone. You pretty much confirmed what I thought had happened...just wanted some other opinions....it's now in the fermenter rapidly fermenting

I figured it was packed w sugars because the entire boil was basically a hot break. We did top off w water so I figure that is the problem. We did mash and did one batch sparge. Being as it was our first time I was unsure exactly what to expect w grab absorption...I had predicted 2.5 gsll

This was our first all grain brew, however we know what we're doing. The wort appeared to be packed full of sugars. Original gravity calculation was 1.102. Since this was the first time brewing this recipe, we were unsure of several factors such as how much water the grain would take on so we...

so I brewed a recipe I had written today for an imperial ipa recipe...according to my calculations and hopville assuming 70% efficiency it came out to 1.100 or so original gravity. When we chilled the wort and got it to reading temp, it came out 1.050. The grain bill is as follows: 17lbs...

Pale malt is sitting at 19 pounds currently and another two pounds of other grain. If it'll bring out the hops more I'm a big fan...I was thinking of adding one pound if sugar and maybe cutting the pale to 17.5.

I'm writing my first beer recipe from scratch and had one big question that's bugging me. First off, the general recipe is row 2 pale malt, crystal 40l, victory, and wheat. Hopped with citra, amarillo, centenniel, and simcoe. I'm thinking that it would be a good deal to add some sort of sugar...