Arrogant Bastard Clone All Grain Recipe Kit - Elegant Bastard Ale

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Arrogant Bastard Clone All Grain Recipe Kit - Elegant Bastard Ale

SKU BK10333

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$44.99

Price Per BOTTLE: $0.93

Product Details

This elegantly simple recipe translates into a deeply complex and brag-worthy American strong ale. The choice combination of pale malt, Belgian Special B, and Chinook hops create a medley of dark caramel, raisin, dried cherry and plum and slight pine flavors all interlaced into a boastful deep copper color. Pouring with a medium-heavy body, Elegant Bastard is a smooth sipper meant to be enjoyed in moderation.

Brewing Notes:

  • Style: American Strong Ale
  • Fermentation Range: 65-70
  • Original Gravity: 1.066
  • SRM: 16
  • IBUs: 81
  • ABV: 7.1%

Tasting Notes:

  • Aroma: Malt aromas of dried fruits and caramel with a medium-high pine resin and slight grapefruit hop nose.
  • Appearance: Deep copper color with ruby mahogany highlights. Firm off-white to nearly tan foam head with good persistence.
  • Flavor: Thick malt profile with fig, dried dark fruits, and moderate dark caramel. High bitterness with pine and subtle citrus fruit hop flavors.
  • Mouthfeel: Medium-full body with a smooth, creamy and long finish on the palate. Slight alcohol warming. Medium carbonation with no astringency.

Brad’s Notes:

“Not quite a Barleywine and certainly stronger and bolder than an American Amber Ale, Elegant Bastard falls in that in-between territory belonging to American Strong Ale. This style is assertively malty and hoppy at the same time, and the hugely popular inspiration for this recipe certainly exemplifies these traits. By starting with a big (yet simple!) malt bill consisting of only base malt and Belgian Special B would seem to be a little bit of a one trick pony, but fret not. The base malt creates a foundation of clean, bready malt flavors, and then the Special B ramps things up a bit by adding the characteristic color and complex flavor profile of dark fruit, caramel and slight toffee. For an equally robust punch in the hop department, sizeable doses of classic Chinook hops are added at four separate times throughout the boil to create bracing bitterness and prominent flavors and aromas of piney resin, a slight spice and noticeable nuances of grapefruit citrus. To keep things from being overly sweet and heavy bodied, a relatively low mash temperature is used in the all-grain version, while a dose of simple sugars in the malt extract recipe help the yeast to attenuate and contributes to the alcohol content while keeping the body and flavor from being too big or sweet. While this recipe may be ready to drink in 6 weeks (fresh beer is always good!), it is substantial enough to stand up to aging well. If you have the self control, try to (gasp!) hide a few bottles from yourself and then come back to them in 6 months, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Elegant Bastard is just that - A bit of an aggressive and rough-around-the-edges bastard when young, but morphs into an complexly elegant sipper with some age on it.”

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Additional Information

SKU BK10333
Original Gravity

1.066

Total Time to Make 6 weeks
Regional Style USA
Alcohol Content Medium
Yield 5 Gallons
Beer Style British/American Strong Ale
Fermentation Type Ale
Beer Recipe Kit Instructions Click here for recipe kit instructions

Customer Reviews

Based on 4 reviews
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keith m.
love it

have not made yet have many other beers , wine ,seltzer and kobucha fermenting but am sure it will be great

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Vern W.
Very happy

Can I bring in my grains to be crushed yet

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Bobby O.
Very close Stone Clone

Delivery was quick. Tastes a lot like the Stone recipe. This is my most brewed recipe, I keep having to make more because it’s always delicious and gone.

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Paula W.
Makes for a delicious holiday beer

I had a terrible flood in my house during the late summer. Workmen doing the reconstruction stole my Christmas barleywine out of the beer fridge. I made this instead for the holiday as soon as I discovered the loss of my Bigfoot clone (and a pox upon those so low to steal Christmas beer). Two weeks primary, three weeks secondary. I ended up with 8%ABV because the beer finished at 1006. Preliminary sample is danged good. Finished product will be awesome come the actual holidays in a few weeks.

Customer Reviews

Based on 4 reviews
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keith m.
love it

have not made yet have many other beers , wine ,seltzer and kobucha fermenting but am sure it will be great

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Vern W.
Very happy

Can I bring in my grains to be crushed yet

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Bobby O.
Very close Stone Clone

Delivery was quick. Tastes a lot like the Stone recipe. This is my most brewed recipe, I keep having to make more because it’s always delicious and gone.

P
Paula W.
Makes for a delicious holiday beer

I had a terrible flood in my house during the late summer. Workmen doing the reconstruction stole my Christmas barleywine out of the beer fridge. I made this instead for the holiday as soon as I discovered the loss of my Bigfoot clone (and a pox upon those so low to steal Christmas beer). Two weeks primary, three weeks secondary. I ended up with 8%ABV because the beer finished at 1006. Preliminary sample is danged good. Finished product will be awesome come the actual holidays in a few weeks.