StefanR Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I have been inspired to brew some Russian Imperial Stout, but can't really justify the 3 can 20L 'How to Brew' recipe, so was thinking of making a 10L brew with the following ingredients - 1 x Can of Coopers OS stout 500g of Light DME 500g of Dextrose 250g of Crystal Malt 50g of Roasted Barley 25g of Fuggles Leaf Hops (4.6%AA) boiled for 10mins 2 x Coopers Ale Yeasts Any thoughts would be great [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikF Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Sounds very nice! I'm keen to hear how it turns out! Could be a good one to save for the cold months! Be sure to let us know![roll] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikF Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Tried inputting this one in one of those spreedsheets, and it gives you this: OG: 1097 FG: 1019 ABV 10,6 (bottle) IBU: 88,8 EBC: 234,8 EBC sounds completly crazy! According to the spreedsheet it should be between 59,1 and 78,8. Does anyone know if this matters or just have some inputs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Just found a chart on Wiki EBC 138 is the max for an imperial how much blacker can you get? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Reference_Method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikF Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Just found a chart on Wiki EBC 138 is the max for an imperial how much blacker can you get? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Reference_Method Found the same thing, but as you say how black can it get, and is EBC only the color, or does it have a reference to taste as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 EBC = European Brewery Convention EBC 138 is a number in there color system and nothing to do with flavor The BCJP uses SRM (a more common used system here in Australia and I believe the US use Lovibond) a diffrent measurment of color, I think you can further convert into RBG but im not sure why you would care [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikF Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Converted I get 88,51 SRM.. The scale says: black = 40+ But if it's just a colour I don't really care about it[bandit] Will propably try it, and report back..[rightful] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Well the question is really, how much more black could this be? And the answer's none ... none ... more black ... Couldn't pass up a Spinal Tap reference there[lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffH1 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Sounds great. I bottled the 3 can version 2 weeks ago. It was FANTASTIC tasting at bottling[love] This brew was very volcanic during the first 4 days! Make sure you have plenty of head room and nothing that will be ruined underneath...just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanR Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Sounds great. I bottled the 3 can version 2 weeks ago. It was FANTASTIC tasting at bottling[love] This brew was very volcanic during the first 4 days! Make sure you have plenty of head room and nothing that will be ruined underneath...just in case. I will be brewing this in a 33L FV, so hopefully 23L of headspace will be enough![unsure] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanR Posted April 9, 2012 Author Share Posted April 9, 2012 Got this on tonight and got an OG of 1.084 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB2 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 The original Coopers RIS recipe warns of massive krausen overflow. Why not buy the 3 cans and the dextrose as per the website recipe but only use 10 litres and half the ingredients. When finished, repeat to same process for the remaining ingredients. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewG5 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Massive doesn't do it justice, about 2 litres came out the airlock as foam [annoyed], racked to secondary to save what was left.That was in a 30L drum! Here's hoping the finished product is worth the mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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