Stone XI Anniversary Clone

[CastleBlack]

What was Mash details and Batch size of this bad bot?

What the poster above said mate. I try to avoid using tailored numbers since home-brewing to me is all about making it your own.

This specific batch was only a 3.5 USG and my mash was 153 since US-05 will take the final gravity "to town". If I finish at 1.014-15 i ll be happy. Here in virginia the temps are getting warmer really quick so my secondary is more active that I expected. Nonetheless, we are still getting some super hoppy goodness in just a few more days!

Happy brewing everyone and make sure you keep your IBU's high!

 

[CastleBlack]

Edit:

Just bought me a grain mill!

Back to schedule mate!

SSR here I come.-

 

[curry767]

Much appreciated.

Yeah I built the recipe for 25 litres (you guys can work that one out), it was mainly the mash details I was curious about.

Anyway enough thread drift. Back to the black goodness of this IPA

 

[DrinkNoH2O]

Thanks mate!

I'm from Australia by the way

No worries! Makes sense now!

I have an Aussie buddy in who lived in Newport Beach until recently, what a coincidence.


BTW - you're in America now, no brewing in liters! Embrace the gallon, haha.

 

[CastleBlack]

No worries! Makes sense now!

I have an Aussie buddy in who lived in Newport Beach until recently, what a coincidence.


BTW - you're in America now, no brewing in liters! Embrace the gallon, haha.

I second that! Brewing is in Gallons (sometimes drinking is in gallons too but that's for another time!)

Happy brewing to ya all.

 

[CastleBlack]

Blasted!

I just had a fine bottle of SSR. Tasted the brew I have held to great respect and yet I am surprised. The notes are of overwhelming sweet maltnyess and separately hoppy bitterness. A true barleywine. But this is not the reason I write this review. I am intending on making this monster, within the month, finally. To me it also tastes like an arrogant bastard Plus mild roasted notes. Whatever Arrogant bastard is I think this brew is as well plus Carafa III. Perhaps we could make this one again with C-120 instead of C-60 for the body.

Please do post your thoughts.

Happy brewing to ya all.

 

[DrinkNoH2O]

I think it may have been an older bottle you tasted then. I always get great hop aroma and a fairly dry finish from SSR. Plus you get that distinctive Simcoe/Amarillo combo vs. all Chinook in AB.

 

[CastleBlack]

I think it may have been an older bottle you tasted then. I always get great hop aroma and a fairly dry finish from SSR. Plus you get that distinctive Simcoe/Amarillo combo vs. all Chinook in AB.

It is possible, I did check the date and it was before the freshness date. I did get a great hop aroma, even fine hop flavor, only that hop taste was overly reminiscent of A.B. I did not get the Simcoe/Amarillo combo, at least not noticeably. What we know with certainty is that A.B uses a high SRM Crystal, some speculate it is C-150 or Special B. Yet, in our recipe of SSR we use C-60, I can only hope that it is adequate.

In any case, we will soon find out.

Happy brewing to ya.

 

[CastleBlack]

Tomorrow is the day: SSR is about to be brewed. I am shouting for 70% eff. If I get anything over that, I ll let it roll.

Happy brewing to all of you out there and thanks for all the pointers on this monster of a brew.

 

[badbrew]

I had to look this up because I was looking for a recipe on this beer that I tried the other day. Damn it's good.:rockin::

 

[CastleBlack]

I had to look this up because I was looking for a recipe on this beer that I tried the other day. Damn it's good.:rockin::

You wont be disappointed.

Worth homebrewing even in a hop shortage!

 

[captainoverspray]

Just bottled mine, due to travel at work this sat on dry hops for longer than I wanted. It still tastes amazing. I didn't get to do a FG reading since my hydrometer decided to break when it hit the floor when i dropped it. You would think they would bounce when the hit concrete. I had to samples while bottling and it packed a good hop punch and kind of gave me a nice little buzz. tonight I am going to sample the second runnings beer that I also made, hope it is half as good as this.

 

[CastleBlack]

Just bottled mine, due to travel at work this sat on dry hops for longer than I wanted. It still tastes amazing. I didn't get to do a FG reading since my hydrometer decided to break when it hit the floor when i dropped it. You would think they would bounce when the hit concrete. I had to samples while bottling and it packed a good hop punch and kind of gave me a nice little buzz. tonight I am going to sample the second runnings beer that I also made, hope it is half as good as this.

So you made a little parti gyle did ya?

I envy that and let me say this is just brew to do it!

Let us know how the little brew came out cause I am sure the big one is just amazing.

Happy brewing!

 

[nickmv]

Brewing this up again this weekend. Last time when I had just gotten into PM, I somehow F'd it up. Think I got too much hop dust into the bottles and the hoppiness got grassy and earthy, really nasty stuff.

I'm into kegging and better equipment now so this should be a real treat.

 

[dannyhawkins]

I've been planning a black IPA for a while and finally chose this recipe after trying this beer.

My recipe was lighter on the bittering hops.

5gal. Batch

14.5 lbs. pale malt
1lb. Caramel 60
1lb. Carafa III

1.5 oz. Chinook at 60
.5 oz. Chinook at 10
.5 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe at 5
.5 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe at 0
1 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe for dry hop

My only problem was missed OG and only hit 1.060

Pitched on a yeast cake of WL001 and it went off today I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[nickmv]

I just took a reading today and a sample.

While it's currently lacking aroma (dry hops werent in obviously), the taste is a 100% DEAD RINGER for Stone SSR. I tossed in 4oz of dry hops and look forward to having it on tap within 2 wks.

 

[dannyhawkins]

I've been planning a black IPA for a while and finally chose this recipe after trying this beer.

My recipe was lighter on the bittering hops.

5gal. Batch

14.5 lbs. pale malt
1lb. Caramel 60
1lb. Carafa III

1.5 oz. Chinook at 60
.5 oz. Chinook at 10
.5 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe at 5
.5 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe at 0
1 oz. each Amarillo and Simcoe for dry hop

My only problem was missed OG and only hit 1.060

Pitched on a yeast cake of WL001 and it went off today I'll let you know how it turns out.

I just added the dry hops addition. It won't be long now, I'll wait for a taste at bottling.

 

[CastleBlack]

I just added the dry hops addition. It won't be long now, I'll wait for a taste at bottling.

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That one good lookin carboy.

Happy brewing to ya.

 

[bmwwd6]

Can someone please post the extract version recipe, Thanks!

 

[nickmv]

Can someone please post the extract version recipe, Thanks!

If you're doing a full boil, just replace a bunch of the 2row with extract. Keep your specialty grains at their current levels. If you haven't gotten a copy of BeerSmith yet, now is the time to do it, because it gets rid of the guesswork.

 

[nickmv]

I just added the dry hops addition. It won't be long now, I'll wait for a taste at bottling.

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Looks awesome. I kegged mine about 2.5wks ago, and it's been incredible. After about 1 wk in the keg, it really peaked on max hop flavor and minimum homebrew flavor. Also, if you're bottling it, please do yourself a HUGE favor and cold crash it for atleast 2 days, if not 3, and put a filter over your racking cane. I made this beer a couple years back and ended up ruining it because I racked too much dry hop dust into the bottles, which then slowly got grassy/sour as they carbed up. It was amazing in the bottling bucket, but a complete disappointment when it came time to crack open a bottle.

 

[rgarry]

Don't want to derail but I started using NB hop bags when dry hopping. Probably not as effective but makes up for it on the back end. I also thought of using one of those big 5 gallon strainer bags but harder to tie off. It's all trade offs. I have one brew ahead of this, then I will give it a go.

 

[dannyhawkins]

I just added the dry hops addition. It won't be long now, I'll wait for a taste at bottling.

Ok guys I have finally tasted and it is incredible! I cannot believe how good this beer turned out. I will add one more late addition or additional dry hops next time but that's just me being greedy there is plenty of piney resiny goodness already. Brew it!

 

[bmwwd6]

How long has everyone found it needs to condition in the bottles?

 

[nickmv]

How long has everyone found it needs to condition in the bottles?

For as little time as possible. Remember, this is a double IPA, pretty much, and with a serious dry hopping. Age is IPA's enemy.

Mine was in primary for 3 wks, then I dry hopped (in the primary), and at day 3, put it in to cold crash. By day 5, it was cleared up a bit (as much as a black beer can clear, LOL), and I racked into the keg. So about 4 weeks til it was ready to drink.

Keeping in mind that bottles require 3 wks, you're gonna wanna get that bad boy into bottles as soon as you can, as long as you give the yeast enough time to clean up after itself so you don't have off flavors.

Also, please be careful not to get hop dust/sediment in your bottles. I ruined a batch this way, because they developed grassy off flavors after bottling (it was delicious during the bottling). Better to leave a couple pints behind than to suck up a bunch of hop gunk.

 

[BassBeer]

I just put my extract version of this in the primary! Man, what a fun brew.

I tweaked the recipe a bit because of what my LHBS had on hand, and to try to seduce more flavor from the hops.

Here was my take:

5gal. Batch - full boil starting at 6.5 gal.

3lbs. Briess Gold DME (70 min.)
6.6lbs. Briess Gold LME (added at flameout)

6oz. Crystal 40
6oz. Crystal 77
12oz. Carafa II Special

2oz. Chinook (70)
1oz. Nugget (60)
.5oz. Simcoe (15)
.5oz Simcoe (10)
1oz. Simcoe (0)
1oz. Amarillo (0)
1oz. Simcoe (dryhop)
1oz. Amarillo (dryhop)

Pitched Wyeast 1056 starter @ ~65F.

I read some about methods for flavor extraction from the late hop additions and decided to do my final addition at flameout and steep for 15 minutes before starting the chill. Anyone else use this method? Hopefully it'll help produce the big hop flavor I'm looking for.

Anyway, I'll let you know how it turns out!

 

[Nablis]

I'm going to make this again as my next beer. It was one of my best and one of the only times I used simcoe, finally got some more.

 

[BassBeer]

If you were to introduce another hop for dry hopping would you use Cascade or Centennial? Or something else (not Citra)?

 

[Nablis]

I just made this and used centennial and simcoe. Added dry hop yesterday.
I'll let you know know in 2 weeks.

 

[Nablis]

Its good, more floral with centennial. Amarillo and simcoe more citrusy and more armoatic.