A double dose of Eh-din-bruh Scottish Ale yeast helped make quick work of all the sugars. In the keg our Wee Heavy goes. Unlike many of the Pales, IPAs, and NEIPAs, this little fella is going to rest for some time before we pour the first pint. Four months? Six months? More? Only time (and a taste every now and again) will tell. FG ended up around 1.020 which brings the ABV in around 8.5%.
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Gallons of Wee Heavy!
Winter is coming and we want you to be armed with a pint of Wee Heavy. Tons of malt. Lots of caramel. Plenty of alcohol to keep you warm. With those goals in mind, we lit the burner and churned out what will hopefully be a darn good Wee Heavy in six months.
Vorlauf! 
Cracking the first boil 
Dark and stormy wort
19 lbs of grain later, we have ourselves a Strong Scotch Ale in the making. Classic Goldings and Tettnanger take the backup role to a biscuit-ty, malt forward base.