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[alexander]

So where to next?

i am working on creating a rather crazyfying beer, here's what i'm thinking towards

preboil grain bag

12-13lb of extra light extract for 4 gallons of water
light brown sugar
Lyle's syrup
perhaps some grape juice or grape juice concentrate
thinking i'll want some nutrient here too
dunno how much or of what hops yet, there will have to be a lot of them though, in the process of thinking about that right now, thinking i would have to push it to a pretty high IBU though i'm thinking somewhere up in 65-80 range, i'll have to think about that...

starting gravity around 1.10

pale ale yeast

hour of aeration with an aquarium pump and a fine aerating stone

in 3-4 days after start, start adding an oz of sugar a day for 5 days, in this order demerara, cane, demerara, cane, demerara.

thinking of letting it go for another week to 8 days until it stops actively bubbling, racking it, adding some muscovado sugar, an oz more of demerara, adding some more hops, pitching in some distiller's yeast and aerating this for another hour, then for the next 4 days adding 1oz of belgian candy, demerara, belgian candy and demerara. At which point i shall leave it to ferment out for 2 weeks or so, racking it, waiting another week, and finally bottling it with some champagne yeast....

expected alcohol content is around 14-16%abv

So, anyone make anything quite like this? and/or does anyone have any suggestions or direction they would nudge me in (mind you this is still about 2-3 weeks out from starting, i'm churning over the recipe in my head, trying to figure out how to preserve the body, and add complexity)