Founders Imperial Stout Recipe

Discussion in 'Homebrewing' started by ChrisMyhre, Jan 22, 2014.

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  1. ChrisMyhre

    ChrisMyhre Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2013 Massachusetts

    Tried emailing founders as people say they're pretty forthcoming with recipes but not for me this time at least. After lots of Google scouring I didn't come up with anything. They say they use 10 different grains, a first guess would be some combo of marris otter, 2 row and or golden promise for base grains. Maybe carapils for head retention and flaked oats or oatmeal for body. Then lots of small amounts of different toasted malts. I assume a pretty clean yeast, I get almost no dark fruit or esters. Bitterness is also very clean I would assume it's all or close to all something like warrior very early to get to 90 ibus.

    Anyone have any thoughts?
     
    #1 ChrisMyhre, Jan 22, 2014
  2. VikeMan

    VikeMan Grand Pooh-Bah (3,067) Jul 12, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    Sorry, don't know much about this beer. But wanted to add... in my experience, Founders is one of the very few craft breweries that tends to not share recipe details.
     
    #2 VikeMan, Jan 22, 2014
  3. ventura78

    ventura78 Pundit (972) Nov 22, 2003 Massachusetts

    The best I could come up with after a google search was this place. Someone wrote that they may be able to come close to what you want.

    http://www.oconnorshomebrew.com/
     
    #3 ventura78, Jan 22, 2014
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  4. ChrisMyhre

    ChrisMyhre Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2013 Massachusetts

    Thanks, were you just referring to the homebrew talk thread where someone said they could get close to any recipe? I'm sure I can make a similar educated guess but was hoping someone had recipe ideas, thoughts or experience.
     
    #4 ChrisMyhre, Jan 22, 2014
  5. GreenKrusty101

    GreenKrusty101 Initiate (0) Dec 4, 2008 Nevada

    Can't be too good...sounds like they have too complicated (10 malts) of a malt bill :slight_smile:
     
    #5 GreenKrusty101, Jan 22, 2014
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  6. ventura78

    ventura78 Pundit (972) Nov 22, 2003 Massachusetts

    That is where I found it, it is hard to find any info for that brew.
     
    #6 ventura78, Jan 22, 2014
  7. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    Like to know where you got that info from.
     
    #7 jmw, Jan 22, 2014
  8. ChrisMyhre

    ChrisMyhre Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2013 Massachusetts

    Just from forum posts(not on here). Sounds like it was not accurate.
     
    #8 ChrisMyhre, Jan 22, 2014
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