Mosaic "Imperial" Black IPA Suggestions

[oylerck]

For big beers, sometimes cane sugar is added in place of malt to dry out the mouthfeel. Maybe take out something like c60 and try that in its place? I don't drink much but pale colored beers but that is where I would start. That would help lower your fg as well.

I've done at most 2.5 pounds in a 5 gallon tripel, so I know you can go that high but I wouldn't imagine that's necessary.

 

[oylerck]

So I took the 5 gallon recipe in beer smith(already had it saved) and deleted the c60 and dropped both wheat and carafa to .5 lb.

The color is still in the range for black ipa at 32.7srm and the og is 1.104 so not much different. It dropped the fg by a point to 1.017.

However.... if you drop the 2row to 17.5 pounds and add a point of sugar in the last 5? Minutes and follow everything else above you will stay at 1.105 with a fg of 1.014 (which is closer to what you are looking for) I would assume your roast flavor would mellow down do to decrease in dark malts. Not 100% of that with the addition of sugar though.

So my idea:

2 row 89.7%
Carafa II 2.6%
Midnight wheat 2.6%
Cane sugar 5.1%

Let me know what you think... and I am not responsible for any failure in this recipe.

 

[brinson44]

I've never used sugar before, but I'm intrigued. I'm not too worried about fg so that's definitely something to consider. I just don't want any kind of creaminess whatsoever. Thanks for some feedback. I have to brew soon to get this thing ready for the competition.

 

[brinson44]

Also, why cane sugar instead of corn sugar?

 

[oylerck]

Also, why cane sugar instead of corn sugar?

It's cheaper. Basically that's it. There are people that say cane sugars adds a cidery taste, but honestly I have never tasted it. Plus, Pliny the elder uses cane sugar to thin out there beer. If it's good for them it's good for me.

 

[brinson44]

One more thing, I assume you meant last five minutes of the boil for the sugar addition? And the more I've read tonight, the more I really feel like ditching the crystal.

 

[oylerck]

Yeah, the sugar will brown and get a flavor to it if you add it too early. You want it as clean tasting as possible(probably).