Spread it on Toast Imperial Stout Beer Recipe

Category Stout
Recipe Type Extract

Fermentables
 6.6 lbs Northwestern Dark Unhopped Extract
3 lbs Laaglander Light DME
1 lb 40L Crystal malt
.5 lb Chocolate malt
.25 lb Flaked barley
.75 lb Roasted unmalted barley
 
Hops
 1.5 oz 7%AA Cluster pellets (60min)
1.5 oz 5%AA Cascade pellets (60min)
0.6 oz 5%AA Cascade pellets (15min)
0.5 oz East Kent Goldings whole (dryhop)
 
Other
 .25 tsp NaCl
.25 tsp CaSO4
1 tsp CaCO3
5 gal Palos Hills, IL (soft) tapwater
8 oz starter culture from 4 bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
 
Yeast 
Procedure Steeped grains at 170F for 15 minutes in grain bags. Fermented at 65F. Bottled with 1/2 cup boiled corn sugar.

Spruce Beer  

Category Spiced Beers
Recipe Type Extract
 
Fermentables
 6.6 lbs Munton & Fison dark malt extract
3 lbs dry dark extract
 
Hops
 3 oz Cascade hops (4.3 alpha)
1 oz Cascade hops
 
Other
 3 tsp gypsum
.5 tsp Irish moss
.5 oz spruce essence
 
Yeast Leigh & Williams Beer & Stout yeast 
Procedure Boil malt and boiling hops for 1 hour. In last 10 minutes add the 1 ounce of Cascade finishing hops and the Irish moss. In the last 2 minutes add the spruce essence. Chill and pitch yeast.

Spruce Beer  

Category Spiced Beers
Recipe Type All Grain

Fermentables
 10 lbs american 2-row malt
.5 lb crystal 40 Lovibond
1/3 lb chocolate malt
 
Hops
 1 oz cascade hops (aa=7.6%, 60 minutes)
 
Other
 1 pint fresh spruce growths (30 min.)
 
Yeast German Ale Yeast 
Procedure I mashed all grains together and did a protien rest at 122 degrees for 30 minutes and then mashed at 148-152 degrees for 1 hour.

Spruce Juice  

Category Spiced Beers
Recipe Type Extract
 
Fermentables
 5 lbs Premier Malt hopped light malt extract
1 lbs dried light plain malt extract
1/8 lbs roasted barley
 
Hops
 2 oz Cascade hops
 
Other
 20 oz cup loosely filled with blue spruce cuttings
 
Yeast Ale yeast 
Procedure Bring extract and 1 1/2 gallons of water to boil. Add Cascade hops and boil for a total of 45 minutes. Rinse spruce cuttings, then toss into the wort for the final twelve minutes of the boil. Cool. Pitch yeast.