Celebration beer - Big Black Balls!

[gibbiem]

Knocked together a recipe for a beer, its a bit of a celebration brew as her indoors got a job offer yesterday in Manchester! We've been planning to move down there closer to family etc. Anyway, its a bit different, a bit random but f**k it, what's the worse that could happen!!

2kg MO
2kg Munich
2kg Vienna
1kg crystal 80l
500g carafa 1 (cold steep)
500g oats
1kg of DME in the boil

20g Magnum FWH
50g Chinook @ 90
30g Cascade @ 30
30g Nelson Sauvin 30 min steep
20g Amarillo 30 min steep
50g citra dry hop
50g Ahtanum dry hop

OG 1083 (8.6% abv)
IBU 130

A big beer, as black as night which requires balls to drink.
Big
Black
Balls

[gibbiem]

No one fancy a comment? Thought this would be a bit controversial

[sbond10]

Feck the halls in holly that's a small amount of grain.... Welcome to Manchester btw

[gibbiem]

Not really, 8kg in total plus 1kg of DME! Not down there yet mate, probably gonna be January

[sbond10]

Sarcasism doesn't come thru on forums lol 9kg erm yeah that's gonna be big. Where about in Manc u looking at ?

[gibbiem]

Ha ha, kinda thought that afterwards! Gonna be around Chorlton mate, that's where she'll working. Literally right in front of the Marble Beer house ha ha

[sbond10]

Ah fair enough think there's a few members near you - well closer than me

[gibbiem]

Nice one! Think I'm gonna approach Marble and see if they have any work going

[sbond10]

If you can drive (with less than 6 points) don't mind grafting and bodily fluids then I can suggest somewhere to tie you over

[gibbiem]

Not sure I want to say yes or no here, but I do tick the boxes like!

[sbond10]

My company's currently recruiting in Rochdale n Warrington driving none frontline ambulances so mainly taking old dears home

[gibbiem]

Nice one! Will keep that in mind mate, cheers.

[gibbiem]

Brew day. Grain weighed, MT warmed and strike water coming up to temp. Just getting the little one to sleep and should be ready to dough in!



Decided I'm going to add the carafa at the end of the mash instead of cold steeping

[gibbiem]

Letting the strike water cool down a little more to 69c

[gibbiem]

Doughed in and settled at 66.8c



Just checked after half an hour and its at 66.9c ha ha. Better than a drop though