Russian Imperial Stout recipe?

[Hawkbox]

Anyone have a good one that is relatively simple? Our local group does a memorial contest in May and I've never brewed one.

 

[Head First]

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/287411/
This was designed by a Home Brewer and brewed for a pub in Spokane Wa. Some refer to it as motor oil. It is a very robust RIS but like any other strong stout gets better every swallow. One of my favorites. High IBUs? Yes, they balance with all the dark malts though.

 

[J A]

My club just did a barrel fill with a 10%+ RIS. compared to the the recipe that Head First references, the recipe we used had a lot of oats and flaked barley for silky moreth and smoothe malt. Not nearly the IBUs either...that one seems like it'd be a little to "robust" for my taste.
The one we did was based on Ten Fiddy. There a number of variations in the recipe search. Some are spelled Ten Fiddy and some are Ten Fidy.

 

[Hawkbox]

Cool, I'll poke around.

 

[jmcnamara]

Ten Fidy is on list...now that's motor oil, but in a good way

 

[Hawkbox]

I'm bastardizing the recipes for my own purposes but I think I'm headed in the right direction. I'm going to try reusing the yeast cake from the porter I just made with ESB 1968 yeast. https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/605175/tsar-bomba

 

[J A]

Looks pretty good! It'll be interesting to see what the Biscuit brings to the flavor. Might be a nice toasty sweet maltiness. I wonder if the Black Malt and Roasted Barley are redundant?
I fermented on a cake of S-04 from a 4-gallon starter batch of a light blonde. It was down to FG in 4 days...that's a lot of maltose to work through!

 

[Hawkbox]

I'm wondering that myself, but every recipe I found more or less seems to do it.