AG#60 Titan Imperial Stout (NYD+1) parti-gyle brew

[leedsbrew]

This is my New Years Day Imperial stout......................only I didn't get it brewed yesterday! er...............

In my defence I was f%^&ing knackered after the worst NYE night shift in A&E. I slept from 9 yesterday till 4 the was back in bed from 10PM. I had managed to get the grains weighed out and water treatment, recipe printed, iPhone synced with BeerAlchemy etc. So today is official brewday. To be honest it's quite apt as this idea started on 02/01/2010 with my 1st RIS to be saved for the next NYE. Some members may have seen THIS THREAD

After talking with pdtnc this year this idea has snow balled into the behemoth that it has become SEE THIS THREAD

I'll hopefully be doing a parti-gyle brew day so long as things go acording to plan. The second gyle will probably just get one kettle addition of challenger or centennial and then a good helping of cold extracted coffee in the secondary!

So with no further jibber jabber from me I'm brewing

TITAN IMPERIAL STOUT

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Pale Ale Malt 7.894 kg 69.4 % 8.2 In Mash/Steeped
UK Roasted Barley 0.782 kg 6.9 % 174.1 In Mash/Steeped
UK Amber Malt 0.775 kg 6.8 % 5.4 In Mash/Steeped
UK Wheat Malt 0.483 kg 4.2 % 0.3 In Mash/Steeped
UK Flaked Barley 0.483 kg 4.2 % 0.2 In Mash/Steeped
UK Chocolate Malt 0.429 kg 3.8 % 67.1 In Mash/Steeped
UK Oat malt 0.258 kg 2.3 % 0.3 In Mash/Steeped
Belgian Special B 0.182 kg 1.6 % 9.3 In Mash/Steeped
UK Black Malt 0.086 kg 0.8 % 16.1 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
US Summit 18.0 % 30 g 40.2 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
US Chinook 10.5 % 10 g 7.8 Loose Whole Hops First Wort Hopped
US Magnum 16.0 % 20 g 23.8 Loose Whole Hops 60 Min From End
US Centennial 8.5 % 25 g 7.9 Loose Whole Hops 15 Min From End
US Centennial 8.5 % 25 g 3.2 Loose Whole Hops 5 Min From End



Yeast
500ml WLP090-San Diego Super Yeast slurry from Uylsses 31



Thats a lot of malt!


Yep, still a lot of malt! The amber smelt so much like good coffee! I forgot how much I like amber malt!


Brewing inside as the shed is a shite whole and it's raining! If it fairs up then I'll be doing the boil outside!




Strike temp sorted!

Now we wait. 90 min mash today to try and help the little buggers convert!

More to follow!

[Lugsy]

Good one LB! At least you've got a good excuse to have missed the brewday, mine was down to being an idiot

It's a beautiful day here, hopefully it's coming your way so you can boil outside - I've got condensation pouring down my windows at the moment! I know what you mean about the amber malt, this is the first time I've used it and it smelled so good I wish I'd put more in.

[leedsbrew]

Cheers Lugsy! Yeah it's starting to brighten up so fingers crossed! I've got about 3kg to use up as it's getting on a bit now so I'm gonna start making up some more recipes with lots in! Maybe a stout with equal roasted barley and amber? Big coffee hit! Oh hang on....that'll be this then! lol

[Spikesdad]

Looking good there Leeds..... wish i'd thrown some flaked barley or oats in mine now. Oh well.

[barney]

Great Recipe!

Hope I get to try some of these IS's they look Awsome.

[leedsbrew]

Well all in all it hasn't gone too badly today!

I think the mash efficiency was down as I did 2 no sparge beers from the one mash, but it shouldnt be that far off. I'll be boiling the 2nd gyle tomorrow as I'm running out of time tonight before we have friends round for dinner.

More pics and stats to follow!

[leedsbrew]

more pics!


brewing assistant more interested in his ball!


Like a good espresso! mmmm


filth 1


Black as pitch!


2nd gyle. I'm hoping for about 1.036 PBG or so for this


FWH in


2nd gyle runnings slightly less black!


Chiller in!


5 min hop addition of centennial


500ml or so of WLP090 slurry from Ulysses 31



I've cracked a bottle of the RIS from 02-01-10 that inspired this brewday. It is bloody tasty. All dark fruits. roast coffee, leather and tobacco! mmmm


This is what you will become my son! lol

[Spikesdad]

Very nice Leedsbrew... great pics. An your brew assitant looks a lot more livelly than mine!!

[haz66]

Looks like a very good brewday there LB, i bet you could tarmac your drive with that wort

[WishboneBrewery]

I was generally all sticky after my brewday thanks to the thick wort!
Looks good, and I'll be interested to try that second beer too I'll add a link on my blog post to this thread.

[alfie09]

when you say slurry from the last brew how do you go about gathering that from the bottom of the fermenter?

[leedsbrew]

And we have lift off! 5 hours in and the krausen is taking up 3L of space!

I was generally all sticky after my brewday thanks to the thick wort!
Looks good, and I'll be interested to try that second beer too I'll add a link on my blog post to this thread.

Yeah, especially with all that thick awesome sugar you used! looked well tasty.

when you say slurry from the last brew how do you go about gathering that from the bottom of the fermenter?

Just a big sterilised metal spoon mate. Out of the bottom of one FV into the other!

[leedsbrew]

Looks good, and I'll be interested to try that second beer too I'll add a link on my blog post to this thread.

Me 2. Hope it doesn't come out too thin.

[alfie09]

And we have lift off! 5 hours in and the krausen is taking up 3L of space!

I was generally all sticky after my brewday thanks to the thick wort!
Looks good, and I'll be interested to try that second beer too I'll add a link on my blog post to this thread.

Yeah, especially with all that thick awesome sugar you used! looked well tasty.

when you say slurry from the last brew how do you go about gathering that from the bottom of the fermenter?

Just a big sterilised metal spoon mate. Out of the bottom of one FV into the other!

as easy as that? could i store it in a steralized conatiner in the fridge say for a few weeks?

[WishboneBrewery]

Just a big sterilised metal spoon mate. Out of the bottom of one FV into the other!

as easy as that? could i store it in a steralized conatiner in the fridge say for a few weeks?

For about a week should be a 'safe' bet, longer in a sealed bottle with beer on top (like splitting a whitelabs yeast) I guess.