Black Gold Imperial Stout
Brewing Premise: I
seem to get involved in lots of trades and swaps involving the exchange of beer for other goods and
services. I've even traded homebrew for help replacing brake pads in the past – but this particular beer was crafted to trade for some old homebrew equipment! A co-worker of mine used to be into
homebrewing and has since had multiple children and taken up other hobbies. He
still loves craft beer and a good homebrew so I asked him what he’d like in
exchange for all his old equipment. He wanted an imperial stout that wasn't
over the top on the alcohol. As a new All-Grain Brewer I couldn't wait to
figure this one out. I only had a 5 gallon mash tun at the time so the recipe
is tweaked a little to help me get the ABV up since my tun wasn't large enough
to hold all the required grains.
