Notes: 1/18/20- So I am brewing this again, 3G, and then add the remaining bottles (1.75G) into the fermenter for refermentation with the new wort at high krausen. I will be using an Irish Ale Yeast Starter and have a backup of A10 Dark if this doesn't ferment out mostly in the first week.
**This never fully fermented. I added several yeast strains into it and it just hung up, not even carbonating in the bottle.
**I am turning a partial-mash dry stout into an all-grain imperial stout. I like the flavors of the original, so I am just trying to intensify it and make a smaller batch to see if it works.
I am using first runnings for this recipe. The partigyle or second runnings (i.e. the batch sparge) will become a lower ABV beer.
Ok, so far, here is what I have:
Strike water of 170F, 6G, and a temp in the mash over 90 minutes at 162-160F. Higher than I wanted.
Transferred 5.25G of 1.063 wort into the BK, will boil down to about 3G for the fermenter. Not sure how long I will have to boil to get enough evaporation.
My burner evaporates about 1G/hour. I lost a little to boil over a couple times, not much, maybe a few ounces. There was a lot of break left in my strainer, more than I expected, from a BIAB. I think this recipe might be better as a standard dry stout instead of an imperial next time, I.e. 5G batch with these ingredients.
Bottled 2.2 Gallons |
