I reached out to the actual original creators of the recipe via Facebook and LinkedIn and received no reply. The information for the recipe or taken from stone literature on the bottle, and on the stone blog.
I didn't follow it to the letter, but I did do decoctions primarily because my initial strike water was not hot enough.
My higher temp step was longer than 20m probably for 30-40m.
I also found that my thermometer was off by 4degrees, I just replaced it :mug: which should help.
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Mashed @ 154
FG was 1.024 ish. The aim is a 9.0 ABV 35 IBU and 40+ SRM
PS regarding the honey malt: cutting the honey malt to 1lb would be a 50% reduction from the original attempt, I plan on stepping it down slowly so i dont have to over correct.
I have a fermentation freezer, had it set at 67 for the whole fermentation. I moved to secondary @ 7 days and waited another 14 before bottling. Conditioned the bottles for 14-21 days.