Wednesday and Thursday we brewed two collaboration stouts with Nick and Andrew from Three Floyds Brewing. Each day we brewed two half-sized batches from a single mash to end up with one strong Russian Imperial Stout and one small stout. It's called parti-gyle brewing and other than making for a long day, it's a nice twist on the ordinary. You kind of get the best of both worlds: a big syrupy brew to knock your socks off and a thirst-quenching session beer that's more suited to drinking on hot days like we've been having.
Nick wanted to brew an RIS and Jim had the idea to brew the small beer. Andrew and I pretty much just drank beer while the mash slowly ran off to the kettle and Matty got to come in and work until the wee hours of the night finishing things off. I think the small beer ended up around 10 degrees plato and the big one at 28. I thought about calling the stouts Fat Boy and Little Man, but Sodom and Gomorrah have won out as going biblical trumped going nuclear. We'll name the big one Sodom in the hopes that it really does justify raining hellfire and brimstone down upon our land.
The beers will be on tap at the respective brewpubs sometime in August.
