This is sort of embarassing. We made a Founder's Breakfast Stout clone last weekend and thought we had put together a masterpiece. That is, until I tasted the ridiculously sweet concoction, glanced at the recipe, and realized we had made the all-grain and extract recipes into one 5 gallon batch. You see, we intended to do partial-mash and failed to see that the recipe mentioned full-grain and extract, not partial-mash. We now have a 5 gallon batch which, according to Hopville recipe calculator, should produce a stout with abv at 16.5% with an astounding 535 calories per 12 oz. serving.
We screwed up.
So here is where your help comes in - can we salvage this or is it a tosser?
Two ideas:
1) Blend it with another 3-4 gallons and dilute the powerful blend we inadvertently created.
2) Run a tertiary and quaternary fermentation with different yeasts and hope that we can eat up the tremendous amount of sugar.
Any other ideas?
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