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I plan to try this one again. I’m going to use some rice hulls this time so that I hopefully don’t get a stuck sparge. This is an expensive beer to brew but it’s really good.

MZ base clone

13.5 # Maris Otter
5.5 # Munich II
3# Flaked Barley
2# Chocolate 350L
2# Muntons Roasted Black Barley, unmalted 470-560 lovibond
1# Dingemans de-bittered black malt 500-600 lovibond
1# special B 140-150L
1# Crystal malt 60L

Boil 90-120 min add 3 oz. Magnum @ 75 min

I was gonna do Hunaphu and add this to secondary

1 stick cinnamon
1 Vanilla bean
4 oz. cocoa nibs
1 oz ancho chili
.5 oz Pasillia chili
.5 oz Guajillo

I decided to add this instead

4 oz of coarse ground coffee
4 oz cocoa nibs
4 oz Rip Van Winkle
2 Vanilla beans
steeped this for two weeks before adding the juice to the keg. I also put the cocoa nibs and coffee grinds in a hop bag and added this to the keg and left them in.

Mashed in at 155. I wanted to only use first running’s but that went to hell too.
You will need around 10 gallons of water to get 5.5 in the carboy.

THIS IS A METRIC SHIT TON OF GRAIN!!!!

OG was only 1.094, was shooting for 1.12. I had a stuck sparge.
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.
Wort cooler was cracked and added water to the wort so I had to boil it off again.
It’s going to turn out good I think but will never be able to make the same beer as this one.
I pitched a quart of yeast from work, hoping to get fg down to 1.03 or a little less..Be sure to use some rice hulls to avoid stuck mash.