Imperial Stout Double-W Imperial Stout

[rmedved]

For anyone who may have partigyled this, did you cap the second beer with anything? How did it turn out?

 

[motobrewer]

cap the second beer? like, with extract?

i didn't. i was able to pull 5g (postboil) of 1.045ish wort out of the 2nd. turned out fantastic.

 

[nicegut]

Same as above. Got a great small stout out of the 2nd runnings. Bottled and drank it all quick. Nice nutty flavor. Just tapped the big stout after 9 mos. aging. Its good but will get better with time. Strong stuff so watch out!

 

[moviebrain]

11 days in primary and I dropped from 1.111 to 1.030 on the nose. It's great right out of the bucket but it'll be bulk aged in a keg for a bit while I figure out the best way to add the oak cubes I planned to let them sit on (but forgot until it was already running into the keg)

 

[Sarrsipius]

I made this in late December. After about a month in the keg it is delicious. last weekend I bottled up 12 22oz bottles for aging and a six pack of 12oz for submission to the IN State fair competion in June. I think it may actually show better as a cascadian dark ale than a stout. It's very hoppy for a stout. I'll see how it tastes in June before I enter it and decide what category it should be in. It may be one of those that doesn't follow style very well but tastes awesome!

 

[moviebrain]

Thanks again for the great recipe!

 

[r2eng]

Amazing "schmutz" is always left behind from fermenting this beer, huh?

 

[runningweird]

I had about 4 inches of crud on the bottom of my bucket when I racked out.

 

[motobrewer]

kegged my small stout partigyle. it's pretty tasty. racked the big one to a secondary. also...tasty

i haven't had a 2011 vintage in awhile. tonight seems as good as any

 

[moviebrain]

Amazing "schmutz" is always left behind from fermenting this beer, huh?

SO MUCH schmutz. The pressure during and before the blowoff tube was placed bowed the lid up like a balloon. I was more amazed that this beer has stained my wine bucket yellow! Maybe a good 24 hour super PBW soak will get it clean, but judging from my old plastic stir paddle I'm guessing it's permanent. Either way it's now my "strong/big/dark" beer bucket.

 

[grundig5]

I just re-brewed this yesterday, woohoo! Efficiency sucked again, 65%, but I ended up with 6.25 gallons in the fermenter (oops) at 1.094. Should have boiled another hour it seems. I'm thinking this version will definitely get oak cubes for a few months, and possibly also cocoa nibs and a vanilla bean or two at the end. Anyone add nibs or vanilla bean to this yet?

 

[ejyoung]

Brewed this yesterday as a partigyle. The stout went pretty well, though I was looking a little low based on refractometer readings so I added a little extract at the end of the boil to bump it up. Came in a 1.113 which I'm happy with given the fact that I didn't do my normal sparging/process in order to leave enough to make the second beer.

I used the 2 packs of US-05 and pitched at about 9pm last night (rehydrated in some water that had been boiled then cooled a bit). It's been sitting at about 68 degrees waiting for fermentation to start so I can chill it down a bit more. I'm getting anxious though after reading about how fast some of yours started with US-05. It's been 12.5 hours now.

 

[opteek]

I brewed this up on Friday and pitched Sat morning (no chill). This is the strongest beer I've made yet. Boiled for 1 hour and used Magnums for the bittering addition and upped the IBUs a little. I ended up getting 5.75 gal into the fermenter at 1.100 (just under 65% eff) and as I sit here with a big grin on my face, I can hear it bubbling away in the background. :rockin: Absolutely can't wait till this is done, not sure if I should rack ontop of a vanilla bean or not. Ideally I would like to split the batch and do one with and one without.

 

[grundig5]

I decided I am going to take a gallon and secondary it with bourbonized maple syrup, oak, cocoa slurry, fresh coffee beans before bottling, and prime with maple (cbs-esque). Another gallon will secondary with a vanilla bean and cocoa slurry. The remaining 4 or so gallons will be plain. I'll report back with pics. Hopefully I'll get this done next weekend.

 

[runningweird]

my keg is almost empty but I wanted to capture a picture before that happened. Will be brewing again very soon.

 

[runningweird]

I just kicked my keg of this - I used my new bowie bottler to fill 10 grolsch bottles of this fine deliciousness for long term aging - If I can hide them from myself well enough.

I will be rebrewing this tomorrow - But this time I will be adding an oak spiral to the fermenter for a few weeks then bottling half of it then adding vanilla to the other half.

 

[opteek]

Racked this after 1 month to secondary to age. Very happy to say that I nailed the FG at 1.030. I know it will completely change but this is effing delicious right now. Thank you!!

 

[diverpat]

I just brewed this guy up yesterday. It pushed the limits of my system with 24.5lbs of grain but everything went great. I overshot the OG with 1.130 so this guy is going to be a beast. Hopefully 2 packs of S-05 will beable to handle it. Fermentation is just starting to ramp up this morning. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[opteek]

Just finished bottling this and drinking a sample as I type. Absolutely fantastic and smooth as silk! Mine finished out at 1.030 and it's been almost 3 months so I'm hoping in 2-3 weeks that this will be rdy to really try.

 

[ddrrseio]

could anyone offer thoughts on doing this with denny's 50? i have some on hand but no us05

 

[BayerischBier]

Anyone has tried to pimp this RIS with some Bourbon-Oakchips?

 

[runningweird]

I put two heavy toast oak spirals in mine along with Three ounces of Columbus dry hops. You can barely taste the oak. Might be worth a try.

 

[sfrisby]

Anyone has tried to pimp this RIS with some Bourbon-Oakchips?

2oz oak cubes with 16oz bourbon for 2 months. Turned out great!

 

[looneybomber]

I am fermenting this now. Had a rough time at the LHBS.
They only had 1lb of black barley so we subbed in .5lb Victory
They had no special B so we used caramel 120.
They had no caramunich so we used caramel 40L, and I used 3.3lb of Munich LME.
They had no pale chocolate, so I used a whole pound of chocolate.

They had the hops, and I used light DME for the rest. I used a US05 yeast cake from a 1.060 rye wheat I bottled 3-4wks ago. I aerated prior to pitching and a couple hours after having airlock activity. Part of this batch I will secondary on oak, bourbon, and cherry puree.

 

[motobrewer]

They only had 1lb of black barley so we subbed in .5lb Victory

?????????

 

[sfrisby]

I am fermenting this now. Had a rough time at the LHBS.
They only had 1lb of black barley so we subbed in .5lb Victory
They had no special B so we used caramel 120.
They had no caramunich so we used caramel 40L, and I used 3.3lb of Munich LME.
They had no pale chocolate, so I used a whole pound of chocolate.

So you brewed a completely different beer? ; )

 

[looneybomber]

Yeah 1lb of black barley and a half pound of something. It had a 350L, which after looking at victory is not it at all.

So you brewed a completely different beer? ; )

Well, I hope not. They said these were close substitutions.

 

[motobrewer]

yikes. victory is the opposite of black barley. i donno what he was thinking.

 

[looneybomber]

yikes. victory is the opposite of black barley. i donno what he was thinking.

Well, one of two things happened, I got something with a lovibond of 350 and "thought" it was victory, or I got victory and they "thought" it was something else with a lovibond of 350. I guess I'll never really know for sure till I go back and ask what was in that bucket.

 

[sfrisby]

yikes. victory is the opposite of black barley. i donno what he was thinking.

I wouldn't sweat it. I had to make some substitutions too and it turned out awesome! You may have created a masterpiece!