Imperial Stout

Beer Recipes
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Hi guys,
Planning a small brew for this weekend (5L), what do you think about this Imperial Stout recipe?

Original Gravity: 1.095
Final Gravity: 1.023
IBU (Tinseth): 85
BU/GU: 0.90
Color: 78 EBC

Mash
Temperature — 65 °C — 60 min
Mash Out — 75 °C — 10 min

Malts (2.316 kg)
1.55 kg (66.9%) — Simpsons Pale Ale Finest Maris Otter — Grain — 5 EBC
250 g (10.8%) — Weyermann Extra Pale Premium Pilsner — Grain — 3 EBC
200 g (8.6%) — Weyermann, Beech Smoked Barley Malt — Grain — 8 EBC
100 g (4.3%) — Briess Oats, Flaked — Grain — 2.8 EBC
66 g (2.9%) — Weyermann Roasted Barley — Grain — 1100 EBC
50 g (2.2%) — Weyermann Caraaroma — Grain — 350 EBC
50 g (2.2%) — Weyermann Carafa Special I (Chocolate) — Grain — 900 EBC
50 g (2.2%) — Weyermann Caramunich III — Grain — 140 EBC

Hops (31 g)
17 g (85 IBU) — Nugget 13% — Boil — 60 min
7 g — Centennial 10.6% — Boil — 0 min
7 g — Chinook 12.1% — Boil — 0 min

Yeast
11 g — Fermentis S-04 SafAle English Ale 75%

Cheers,

2

Looks over complicated.  Why both MO and pils malts?

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I wanted to decrease the sweetness a bit… but you are right, I could use 1.8Kg of MO.
What worries me is if the Caraaroma + Carafa+ Caramunich + Smoked Malt will result in a too much sweet beer. First time brewing an imperial and I have too many different malts at home!

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Using pils malt will not decrease the sweeteness.  You will get no sweetness at all with carafa.  You probably don’t need it.  I would use either cararoma or caramunich, but not both.  I’d probably skip the smoked malt completely, but that’s your choice.

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In that case I prefer to go with the cararoma I think…
Yeah, I have some smoked malt close to its best before… and I thought it could give some interesting complexity. Thanks for the advice, denny.
1 pkg of S-04 will be enough, even if I finally brew a 2 us gal batch? ~7.5L

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1 will be enough.  2 is insurance.