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Habanero Whisky Old Fashioned IMPERIAL STOUT

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9 years 8 months ago - 9 years 8 months ago #1436 by Gash
The "Habanero Whisky Old Fashioned" peated American-style Imperial Stout that Brendan & Chris brewed for Grain and Grape's Good Beer Week System Wars "Iron Brewer" competition was awarded the "People's Choice"

Thanks to Boneyard Brewing!

OG: 1.103 / FG 1.022
ABV: 11.7% (0.7% came from added spirits)
Bitterness: 89 IBU
Colour: 59 SRM

Fermentables:
4kg Australian Ale (38.1%)
2kg German Munich (19.0%)
1.3kg Golden Naked Oats (12.4%)
1kg English Medium Peated (9.5%)
450g Carafa III (4.3%)
250g CaraAroma (2.4%)
250g Special B (2.4%)
150g Pale Choc (1.4%)
100g Midnight Wheat (1.0%)
1kg Belgian Dark Candi Syrup Type II (9.5%) - late kettle addition

Mashed at 65C for 60 mins, sparged at 78C
6.5g chalk (mash)
1g gypsum (kettle)
1g calcium chloride (kettle)

90 minute boil
24L start boil / 17.5L end boil

Hops:
40g Simcoe 60 mins (55 IBU)
40g Columbus 10 mins (23 IBU)
40g Centennial 0 mins
40g Simcoe 0 mins

Other:
3 Habaneros (flame roasted, de-seeded, de-veined and added at start, mid and end boil)
5g Amchur (green mango powder) 60 mins
2 lemons (zest only), 30cm stick of lemon scented verbena and 1 mesquite smoked Rocoto chilli steeped in Maker's Mark Bourbon and Angostura Bitters then added to the kettle 15 mins before flameout
A shot of Laphroaig at flameout
6 grilled habaneros steeped in 50ml of Bourbon (17 days contact, filtered and added to FV)
1g/L toasted American oak (sanitised in Rittenhouse Rye, 5 days beer contact)
2g/L cocoa nibs & 1 Tahitian vanilla bean, scraped (steeped in Bourbon/Rye, filtered and added to FV)

Fermented with 3 x Wyeast 1728 smack packs at 17C - 20C
Last edit: 9 years 8 months ago by Gash.

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