It’s a rebrew of the stout I brewed last year(Benadict Arnold Stout) with the exception that we’re using English yeast this time and actual EKG as opposed to American Goldings. My Blichmann tower of power not shut off while I wasn’t looking so the temperature shot up to 175 at 40ish minutes in the mash. Beer was running clear so i went ahead and began to run it off slowly. Ended up high on gravity at 1.077 OG which is a little out of the milk stout range. I also dropped the hopping down to 1.5 ounces due to the 6.5% EKG hops I have. Pitched this sucker on top of the barleywine yeast cake just because all that crazyness should produce something interesting. We’ll have to wait and taste this darn thing to see where it fits BJCP wise. This is another one of those days where I’ll probably have a better chance of getting attacked by a great white shark in the desert than reproducing this beer.

Update 11/12/2014

This will definitely be an award winning brew. Reason being is the barleywine apparently killed that Scottish Ale yeast as no fermentation started after about 24 hours.(I pitched Friday evening) So Sunday evening I tossed a year old Wyeast packet of Hella Bock yeast in there. Monday morning no fermentation. So Monday evening I stopped at LA Homebrew and picked up 2 packets of Safale-04. Tuesday morning the wife was mad because that 04 smelled up half the house! So after 2 days of no fermentation it’s rolling.

Update 11/16/2014

Kegged this beer up and it tastes great. Probably needs 30 days to mellow because it has quite a bit of resinous, lemon like hoppiness in it which I believe will fade pretty fast. Final gravity was 1.018.

Update 12/4/2014

Accidentally got a little drunk on this stuff last night as it’s becoming quite delicious. Bottled some and marked with white dots.