Imperial Stout Update And Thoughts of Future Brews
The Imperial Stout is now fermenting at a break-neck pace. The co2 coming off of it smells good (not sour) and the kraesen is looking really scary good (or just scary depending on how you see it…)
Now, I bought some extra yeast that is going to be coming to my door today with another all-grain kit (a Belgian Tripel!!! Yes, I have an issue with loving high-gravity beers). Now I have extra hops and yeast… so, question to our very-few readers…
I have ::
1oz Magnum, 1oz Cascade, 1oz Centennial, and 2oz Warrior hops (all in pellet form) plus some WYeast 1728 Scottish Ale Yeast
Would it be crazy to use those hops in a 60/15/15/0 minute boil addition schedule and use that yeast… and using this as my grain bill?
| 11.00 lb | Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) | Grain | 67.7 % |
| 3.00 lb | Rye Malt (4.7 SRM) | Grain | 18.5 % |
| 1.25 lb | Caramel/Crystal Malt – 60L (60.0 SRM) | Grain | 7.7 % |
| 0.50 lb | Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) | Grain | 3.1 % |
| 0.50 lb | Wheat, Flaked (2.0 SRM) | Grain | 3.1 % |
(stolen from here)
This would make a franken-ipa… or a rye-p-a 
I have absolutely no history of designing beers, so help is appreciated.
And lastly, since getting scared about my stout not fermenting has made me think of brewing a lambic-style beer. Has anyone had any ideas on how to go about that? I don’t think I want to make a fruit-lambic, but if it’s really too sour to drink otherwise I could buckle down and try it that way. What yeast should a person use? A production lambic or, just “get lucky” with the Fargo, ND nasties and pray they land on my wort? (I’m guessing that is a very dumb idea… but it could be a fun science experiment.)
“just ‘get lucky’ with the Fargo, ND nasties and pray they land on my wort?”
Now if you have a mind like me that’s pretty funny stuff! I have no experience with lambics, but I’m sure it would be fun to see where it goes. Trouble is if you do it in the winter I wonder if there are less vagrant yeasts to come by?
Rye-p-a sounds killer. Especially with 5 oz of hops – you might be on to something (or on something)
@Papa Luca
Ha – that’s what she said
Yeah, if I were to do it that way… I’d have to wait for summer.