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Brew day didn't go too poorly for a first attempt. I was way off on my eff (OG = 1.135), but I did get a second smaller beer out of it. I sparged with an extra 4 gal water and boiled it for a few hours to get 5L @ 1.075 after I added my leftover molasses and hops. Good thing I keep some extra...

Thanks again to everyone who helped me out with this! I've got my yeast starter ready so I should be brewin' this up in the morning. Here's the final version of the recipe: Cthulu (0.9.1) Imperial Stout Type: All Grain Date: 3/27/2011 Batch Size: 2.50 gal Brewer: rune Boil Size...

I think I'll hold off on the extra sugar at first and see how I do on my eff, if I end up at 65% I'll adjust for it in my mid-fermentation sugar additions. For aeration I just agitate the wort with my wort chiller and pour back and forth between buckets a few times, I hope that will be enough...

Awesome! Can't wait to hear how this hopmonster turns out!

I'll keep an eye out for the thread, and I just might do the same. I've always been curious which primer was better it would be really cool to see a batch split between the two. Now that I keep DME around for starters I might just switch over for the beers that I bottle condition for a long...

Thanks McMalty, I am in total agreement with you and dcp27, 75% is going to be the minimum pale malt for the this recipe. I have to say that sounds delicious. I made a sweet coffee stout @ 1.094 OG and 1.033 FG with 1 lb of lactose & WLP004 and I loved it! But I digress... I'm glad to hear...

I can't say that I have tried DME to carb, so I don't have a good baseline for comparison. What I can say is the last Irish stout I made was carbed with corn sugar and I was very happy with the results. If you don't plan to drink all of it on St. Patrick's day you could always bottle half w/DME...

dcp27: I have read that, however his section about the grain bill seemed focused on keeping a low FG where as I think my target FG is relatively high (but then again, I don't know whats considered a high FG for a beer like this). You are correct though, I've looked at a few other high gravity...

coypoo: Wow, I knew you lost some eff points on the big beers, but I had no idea that you could loose that much. With the 2hr boil do you think I could hit 70% (down from 78%)? dcp27: Do you think 60-65% base malt would be ok? I don't want to overdo it, but I get the feeling that with my mash...

cactusgarrett: I've read in a few places that 3F uses Intelligentsia in DL, and I'm a huge fan of coffee so I will probably keep it. Oddly enough, the first AG recipe I could call my own was a sweet coffee stout and thanks to Beersmith it came out great! I haven't tried those yeast strains yet...

That sounds amazingly hoppy! I'd be interested to hear if the beer can actually dissolve the amount of AA from the ~11 oz of hops in the boil. In any case this should be a hopheads dream come true. Also, you might consider adding a little more crystal, at only 4 oz the beer may come out a bit...

Hi all, I’m pretty new here but I hope you guys will give me a hand with a RIS recipe I’m working on. This will be my 4th AG batch so I am still very much a n00b, so please try to bear with me. The goal here is to get around 15% ABV with a high FG (1.033 < FG < 1.035) similar to 3F’s Dark Lord...