Yoopers Dead Guy problems HELP! 1.078

[ilv4xn]

I am making Yoopers Dead Guy clone. I mashed at 158 for 45min. sparged to about 7 gal boiled for 1 hour. now that it's cool I took a reading and it is 1.078 I have not piched my yeast starter yet I was waiting for it to get below 75deg. For some reason I decided to keep my tail runnings. so I starte4d boiling down my 1.020 wart I am adding my best guess at hop amounts from my left over hops. any tips? my goal is to add my 1.5gal of low grav to my 4.5gal of jet fuel to make a Dead guy at 6.5ish. the current 9 is a touch too high.

 

[TopherM]

You would just scale the hops from the original recipe to the volume you intend to add.

 

[bigdaddybrew]

Smashing at 158 should produce lots of unfermentables leaving a high finishing gravity to balance the high alcohol. Could be delicious as is.