Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed this BIG beer as part of a group barrel project.  3 of us are brewing 60 gallons of this stout to be aged in a used whiskey barrel for at least 1 year!  Good thing it won't be kept at my house or most of it would "evaporate" before the year is up! :-)

Took two mash tuns to make this!  Needed 15.6 gallons of 175 degree water to mash all the grain for this batch and my tun is only a 15 gallon pot.  Got my old tun (igloo cooler) out of retirement and put 10 lbs of grain in it and just short of 40 lbs in the other.

After fly sparging 13 gallons into the kettle the runnings still looked quite thick so I refilled the mash tuns with hot water and let sit while bringing the big pot to a boil, then just drained the tuns to a 7 gallon kettle and still got a 1.04 OG wort from it!

Anyway, the big pot yeilded 1.12 OG and is fermenting away.

CHEERS!