Check out their recipes. This one intrigues me. Massive barlywine recipe. Its simple. And insane.
At 2.5 gallons it would be about (slight rounding was done)
11lbs Thomas Fawcett Halcyon mashed at 148.
9 hour boil. Yep. 9 hour boil. You talk about a long boil to develop all the malty goodness... well... this is a looong boil.
0.1 calculated, but 0.25oz magnum @60 (8 hours into the boil) to target IBUs they state... they must use super magnum or get super utilization somehow.
1.1oz cascade, 0.8oz Wilamette @5 (I'd just round these to 1 each if I was brewing it).
1.3oz Mosiac dry hop (I'd just go with 1 or 1.5 if I was brewing it).
Scottish Ale yeast. They use this a lot.
I have no clue how much water I would need to use to do a 9 hour boil and end up with my volume. I've never calculated my boil off for more then 2 hours. It would likely take a pot 10 times larger then mine, to end up with a puddle in that pot that would fill my other pot. And I'd never be able to boil that kind of volume. So for me to try it, I'd just have to go with what I can fit, and keep topping it up if I was to try it. No way I could do a 9 hour boil in any pot I have and not have it turn into burnt sludge without topping it up at least 5 times.
@Beer-Lord: The Gigantic when I figure it has about a 0.2oz bittering addition, 1.2oz flavor addition, a 3.5oz 45 minute hop stand/whirlpool, and 1.5oz or so of dry hop (@5 gallons). I think you tend to dry hop and late hop at higher amounts. So that's probably why you don't think it has enough nose. You tend to use more then 6oz of hops @5 gallons I think. A lot more
