This recipe was for a combined brewing day. I have been experimenting with different ways to get more than one beer in a short brew day. For this, I made ~7.5 gallons of a strong stout and 2.5 gallons of smoked beer. This recipe is for 7.5 gallons of stout. See here for the smoked half.
For 7.5 Gallons:
Fermentables:
15# Rahr 2-row
1# Caramel 80
1# English Chocolate Malt
1# Flaked Oats
1# Flaked Barley (I had ordered 2# barley, but was shipped 1 barley, 1 oats)
8oz Black Patent Malt
8oz English Roast Barley
Hops:
2oz Northern Brewer (60 min)
Other:
1 Whirlfloc tablet
1 Vanilla bean (at flame-out)
Yeast:
2 packs of S-04 dry ale yeast.
Notes:
Brewed: 10/7/12 Start 7:45am
Mashed @ ~152F for 60 minutes at 1.5qt/#
First running: 4.25gals @20.8brix (1.087sg)
Second running: 5gals @11brix (1.044sg)
Pre-boil 9.25gals @15brix
Final: 7.5gals @18brix (1.074sg)
After cooling, I took a gravity reading and got closer to 1.070.
I probably could have gotten away with 1 yeast pack, but with the high OG, I decided to over pitch rather than under. I'm sure it helped because the next day, I had blow off - Unexpected with 2 gallons of head space I leave in the pail.
Another thing I noticed with this beer. Skimming the wort really helped avoid boilover. I started with 9+ gallons in a 10 gallon pot. I have skimmed before, but I could see this was really going to need it. After taking off the top layer of foam, the rest of the boil went flawlessly.
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