head colour

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:26 pm

How do one get a nice white head an a darker beer as in calums porter, my head always come out darker when I do a darker beer.Is it a force carbonating thing or just luck of the draw.

frutbunn · Post by **frutbunn** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:47 pm

I've tried brewing an 'almost' (due to my mistake) stout and still received a 'mildly' white head. More stoutish brews have resulted in the usual darkish heads. Maybe the only way is to force carbonate with Nitrogen, but if there is another way I'd be interested in knowing it too!

skinfull · Post by **skinfull** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:56 pm

Hi.drb. I use king kegs mainly but i seem to lose all head retention to within 2 gals of empty anybody got any ideas how to induce good head retention. s.f.

frutbunn · Post by **frutbunn** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:54 pm

skinfull wrote:Hi.drb. I use king kegs mainly but i seem to lose all head retention to within 2 gals of empty anybody got any ideas how to induce good head retention. s.f.

Are you adding additional CO2?

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:32 pm

If you go to here you can see what i'm on about and on reading more it is bottled conditioned.
http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopi ... &start=135

DRB · Post by **DRB** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:37 pm

[quote]skinfull wrote:
Hi.drb. I use king kegs mainly but i seem to lose all head retention to within 2 gals of empty anybody got any ideas how to induce good head retention. s.f.

I only bottle at the moment so couldn't give you an answer, maybe adding some flaked barley or malted wheat or adding additional co2 as frutbunn says, even though I bottle and get a head on pouring and use adjunts my head doen't stay long.

johnmac · Post by **johnmac** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:23 am

I think nitrogen at high (40psi) pressure gives small bubbles, which tend to look white.

RabMaxwell · Post by **RabMaxwell** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:54 am

I have made stouts many times & used nitrogen to force carb & serve never managed to get an entirely white head like commercial Guinness. I read somewhere years ago that Guinness achieves this by filtering there Guinness not sure if this is true or not though

Post by **Aleman** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:23 pm

It wouldn't surprise me to find that it is filtered. I can't help thinking that the creamy/brown colour of our heads is due to fine roast particles being carried through from the mash to the boil.

PaulC · Post by **PaulC** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:50 pm

I brewed a porter using chocolate, crystal and black malts but no roasted barley which was slowly forced carbed under 10 PSI and it came out with a nice creamy just off-white head. I'd post a pic but its all gone

Paul

skinfull · Post by **skinfull** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:04 pm

I have just done whitbreads porter from marc ollossons book i have achieved a faifly good head on that and what a super drink seems a bit like mackeson.s.f.

BrewStew · Post by **BrewStew** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:58 pm

just thought i'd share this photo with you after my AG brew up today (with loads of pics in the brewday section

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in the glass is a freshly poured can of guiness draught... in the starter is my guiness clone wort beginning to kick off. the heads look very similar so i'm hoping the finished artical turns out the same

skinfull · Post by **skinfull** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:39 pm

What recipe are you using for your guinness clone.

BrewStew · Post by **BrewStew** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:43 pm

i modified an existing recipe found here on the forum... here's a link to my brewday Clicky

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