Stout

[bod]

sound slike a nice stout you are brewing there mystie! where abouts are you studying?

[tribs]

I can heartily reccomend the Brooklyn lager. In fact all of their range are excellent, if a little hard to get hold of

My local Tesco currently has Paulaner Munchner Hell in stock which is worth a try also (again whole range is great if you can find them).

[noby]

I brewed this today... went for 85% pale malt, 5 % each of sugar (for dryness), flaked barley & roast barley, with just over an ounce each of Target & EKG. Looks good!

Is 5% roasted barley going to give you a dark enough beer? (I ask without doing any calculations, just thought it seemed a little low)


Andy, there's also a version of the Guinness Foreign Extra brewed and sold in Ireland. 7.5% iirc. A world away from their draught stout.

[mysterio]

sound slike a nice stout you are brewing there mystie! where abouts are you studying?

Glasgow uni... just starting after a few years of bumming around in awful jobs

Is 5% roasted barley going to give you a dark enough beer? (I ask without doing any calculations, just thought it seemed a little low)

The beer looks dark enough at the moment. I used 500 grams (5 UK gallons) which seems to be the upper limit in the recipes I've looked at. The OG was 1.044 so I think I'm aiming for something like draught Guinness.

I might have to check out Tesco after reading all this.

[eskimobob]

I find it incredible that Guinness is virtuallly the only stout on the market. Many microbrew stouts around?

I agree that it is virtually the only comercial stout on the market (along with Murphy's). There are some fantastic 'Real Ale' stouts on the market and I prefer most of them to Guiness.

I used to like drinking Gillespies Malt Stout. No longer brewed unfortunately. I'd love to find a recipe for it.

[niall]

I've heard of the foreign export stout which is up around the 7% ABV mark and has soured beer added to it to balance the flavour. It's a shame it was never sold here, I would love to try it - I assume you can get it in Ireland?

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout is becoming more widely available in Ireland now. For a long time it was hard to get. As mentioned already the Foreign Extra Stout is very popular in Africa and the Caribbean and a lot of the increased demand has been driven by immigrants.

[mysterio]

I'm drinking this now. Very tasty & dry and very close to the Guinness draught

Nice coffee-like flavours from the roasted barley and the bitterness is spot on. Oddly enough I think US-56 yeast was the right choice for this beer.

Monk> did you ever get round to brewing your Guinness clone?