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Milk Stout Rebrew

November 8th, 2014

It’s a rebrew of the stout I brewed last year(Benadict Arnold Stout) with the exception that we’re using English yeast this time and actual EKG as opposed to American Goldings. My Blichmann tower of power not shut off while I wasn’t looking so the temperature shot up to 175 at 40ish minutes in the mash. Beer was running clear so i went ahead and began to run it off slowly. Ended up high on gravity at 1.077 OG which is a little out of the milk stout range. I also dropped the hopping down to 1.5 ounces due to the 6.5% EKG hops I have. Pitched this sucker on top of the barleywine yeast cake just because all that crazyness should produce something interesting. We’ll have to wait and taste this darn thing to see where it fits BJCP wise. This is another one of those days where I’ll probably have a better chance of getting attacked by a great white shark in the desert than reproducing this beer.

Update 11/12/2014

This will definitely be an award winning brew. Reason being is the barleywine apparently killed that Scottish Ale yeast as no fermentation started after about 24 hours.(I pitched Friday evening) So Sunday evening I tossed a year old Wyeast packet of Hella Bock yeast in there. Monday morning no fermentation. So Monday evening I stopped at LA Homebrew and picked up 2 packets of Safale-04. Tuesday morning the wife was mad because that 04 smelled up half the house! So after 2 days of no fermentation it’s rolling.

Update 11/16/2014

Kegged this beer up and it tastes great. Probably needs 30 days to mellow because it has quite a bit of resinous, lemon like hoppiness in it which I believe will fade pretty fast. Final gravity was 1.018.

Update 12/4/2014

Accidentally got a little drunk on this stuff last night as it’s becoming quite delicious. Bottled some and marked with white dots.

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
6 gal 60 min 26.4 IBUs 33.8 SRM 1.065 SG 1.017 SG 6.4 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
Sweet Stout 13 B 1.044 - 1.06 1.012 - 1.024 20 - 40 30 - 40 2 - 2.4 4 - 6 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Pale Malt, Maris Otter 11 lbs 73.33
Black (Patent) Malt 1 lbs 6.67
Cara-Pils/Dextrine 1 lbs 6.67
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L 1 lbs 6.67
Milk Sugar (Lactose) 1 lbs 6.67

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Goldings, East Kent 1.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 6.5

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Lactic Acid 15.00 ml 60 min Mash Water Agent
Calcium Chloride 8.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) 5.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Whirlfloc Tablet 1.20 Items 15 min Boil Fining

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
SafAle English Ale (S-04) DCL/Fermentis 73% 59°F - 75.2°F

Notes

ater was pre-treated 10 gallons Baton Rouge water Lactic Acid 15.00 ml
Calcium Chloride 8.00 g
Epsom Salt (MgSO4) 5.00 g
used actual EKG this time but the AA was 6.5 so adjusted the rate. Used English Safale yeast due to the Scottish yeast being killed by the English Barleywine that I pitched on. Took 2 days to get fermentation going.

Strong Scottish Ale Starter

October 18th, 2014

So I’ve decided to brew an English Barleywine recipe I got from a fellow brewer I met in the strangest place.(I met him on business in California at a tech conference.) Well he’s using the Scottish Ale yeast strain sold as 1748 from Wyeast so I need a massive starter. Why waste all that DME? I’m brewing this nice Scottish beer except I’m using German Pilsner malt. Pilsner malt has been my secret weapon for brewing nice beers lately. I won 2nd in Dixie Cup with a pilsner pale ale.

Brew day went great for this Scottish Ale. OG ended up high at 1.054. I changed my lautering procedure which appears to have raised efficiency.

Update 12/6/2014
This beer came out great tasting and just nice to drink. Hopefully it does well in competitions. I’ll have to pick up a Scottish 80 (Belhaven I guess) to see how it compares. Marked with green dots for my marking system.

green full size dots.

Update 7/5/2015
Too roasty. Hopefully fades to be something that does well in competition.

Recipe Details

Batch Size Boil Time IBU SRM Est. OG Est. FG ABV
5.5 gal 60 min 27.5 IBUs 17.2 SRM 1.046 SG 1.011 SG 4.5 %

Style Details

Name Cat. OG Range FG Range IBU SRM Carb ABV
Scottish Export 80/- 9 C 1.04 - 1.054 1.01 - 1.016 15 - 30 9 - 17 1.5 - 2.3 3.9 - 5 %

Fermentables

Name Amount %
Pilsner (2 Row) Ger 8 lbs 71.11
Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L 1 lbs 8.89
Munich Malt - 20L 1 lbs 8.89
Special Roast 1 lbs 8.89
Roasted Barley 0.15 lbs 1.33
Pale Chocolate Malt 0.1 lbs 0.89

Hops

Name Amount Time Use Form Alpha %
Goldings, East Kent 1.5 oz 60 min Boil Pellet 5
Goldings, East Kent 0.5 oz 5 min Boil Pellet 5

Miscs

Name Amount Time Use Type
Lactic Acid 12.00 ml 60 min Mash Water Agent
Calcium Chloride 10.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) 5.00 g 60 min Mash Water Agent

Yeast

Name Lab Attenuation Temperature
Scottish Ale (1728) Wyeast Labs 71% 55°F - 75°F

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