Caplan's Vanilla Bourbon Stout
Barrel aged with Vanilla
by James Caplan
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--This is a barrel aged beer. It will be in barrels until mid 2017-- Imperial stout aged on oak barrels and split vanilla beans aged for minimum 6 months.
Recipe Details
Scaled down so you can brew your own 5 gallon batchSpecial ingredients
- 1oz Cocoa Nibs @ Secondary Aging
- 5 split and scraped vanilla beans @ Secondary Aging
Yeast
- White labs WLP099 super high gravity ale
Malt bill
- 3lbs caramel 90L
- 1lb American chocolate malt
- .2lb black patent
- 3lb liquid dark extract
- 10lbs Two Row Malt
- 1lb malto dextrin
- 2lb brown sugar
- 2lb oaks flaked
Boil time
- 60
Hop regimen
- 1 oz mythos @ 60min
- 1 oz crystal @ 20min
- 1 oz crystal @ 5min
Gravity
- O.g. 1.122. F.g. 1.029
IBU
- 50.1
ABV
- 11
