Let's Brew - 1906 Drybrough XXX Stout

Finally, a Stout worthy of the name. With a gravity well north of 1070º. Which is Double Stout strength. At least in London.

Recipe details you can find above in the X Stout entry.

This batch of XXX was packaged into 24 hogsheads, 15 kilderkins and 15 firkins. Quite an odd mix of cask sizes there. With nothing going into barrels, just larger and smaller sizes. Not sure what that tells us. But I thought I’d share it with you.

Given the strength, at least some of it might have been aged. For maybe 12 2to 18 months. That might explain why some was racked into hogsheads.
 

1906 Drybrough XXX Stout
pale malt	11.50 lb	69.38%
black malt	0.40 lb	2.41%
flaked rice	1.25 lb	7.54%
flaked maize	0.875 lb	5.28%
No. 1 invert sugar	0.40 lb	2.41%
No. 2 invert sugar	0.50 lb	3.02%
No. 4 invert sugar	0.40 lb	2.41%
honey	0.50 lb	3.02%
caramel 500 SRM	0.75 lb	4.52%
Fuggles 120 mins	0.75 oz
Cluster 120 mins	1.25 oz
Fuggles 90 mins	2.00 oz
Goldings 30 mins	2.00 oz
OG	1077
FG	1015
ABV	8.20
Apparent attenuation	80.52%
IBU	72
SRM	37
Mash at	148º F
Sparge at	167º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	61º F
Yeast	WLP028 Edinburgh Ale