Arrogance Is Brett

Finally got around to brewing up my clone of Stone Brewing's Arrogant Bastard.  Except for some alterations, like all Simcoe instead of Chinook and all Brett instead of regular sach. yeast, and the acid malt, it is the same recipe that the Brewing Network determined to be the closest of their clone attempts.  I built up quit a nice size starter out of dregs of Rayon Vert and O'dell's Sabatuer.  Needless to say, within 7 hours, I had some nice activity and it smells great!

I mashed at 153 for 60 minutes and added the acid malt after the mash was complete, so not to alter the mash pH.  The final gravity was 1.067, so higher than expected.

I think I'm hooked on harvesting bottle dregs and stepping them up.  I still have a bottle of O'dell Friek and a bottle of some recent Cantillion that I will probably add to my sour blonde that is only 4 weeks in.

Brew Type: All Grain	Date: 1/30/2012
Style: Specialty Beer
Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Volume: 6.00 gal	Boil Time: 60 min
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.00 %	Equipment: Brew Pot (7.5 gal) and Igloo Cooler (10 Gal)
Actual Efficiency: 82.33 %

Ingredients

Amount	Item	Type	% or IBU
10.00 lb	Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)	Grain	86.96 %
1.00 lb	Special B Malt (180.0 SRM)	Grain	8.70 %
0.50 lb	Acid Malt (1.8 SRM)	Grain	4.35 %
0.50 oz	Simcoe [14.10 %] (60 min) (First Wort Hop)	Hops	25.3 IBU
2.00 oz	Cascade [5.50 %] (Dry Hop 5 days)	Hops	-
0.25 oz	Simcoe [14.10 %] (60 min)	Hops	11.5 IBU
0.50 oz	Simcoe [14.10 %] (20 min)	Hops	13.9 IBU
2.00 oz	Simcoe [14.10 %] (10 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)	Hops	-
1.00 oz	Simcoe [14.10 %] (10 min)	Hops	16.7 IBU
1.00 items	Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 10.0 min)	Misc
1 Pkgs	My Brett Yeast Culture [Starter 0 ml]	Yeast-Ale