All Grain 1: Four Shades of Stout.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:05 pm

Four Shades of Stout 25L.

Maris Otter 4Kg
Flaked Barley 0.8Kg
Amber Malt 0.3Kg
Roast Barley 0.25Kg
Carafa III 0.25Kg
Chocolate Malt 0.2Kg

Mash at 66C

Cascade 40g 8% a.a 90 minutes.

Nottingham Ale Yeast

Mash on Temperature 66.5C.

rick_huggins · Post by **rick_huggins** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:25 pm

I just done this on Monday and it smells great.

I was advised to mash at 67 however..

Should be racking it for bottling on Sunday

Good luck

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:38 pm

I looked at Garths origional. He had 66, so thats a nice compromise.

WishboneBrewery · Post by **WishboneBrewery** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:10 pm

How's the Sparging going?

Horden Hillbilly · Post by **Horden Hillbilly** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:11 pm

Good luck with your 1st ag brew & Four shades is an excellent brew, you won't be disappointed.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:26 pm

Cheers I hope so and the sparging was a bit fiddly, I used the wrong FV I feel for my mashtun so I have to switch it over.

Got there in the end, pre boil OG of 1042 and got around 30 Litres boiling away just now. I will have photos later on.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:26 pm

Here are the pics.

Grain bill

Lovley smelling cascade hops. Mmmmmmm.

Sparged Grains.

Coming to the boil.

Hops in.

Some boiling Pictures. Irish moss just in.

adm · Post by **adm** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:54 pm

Mmmm....looks good! 4SS is a lovely brew.....see if you can leave it a few weeks before you crack on into it.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:03 pm

I will see if I can manage.

I ended up with 23.5 Litres at 1052, so I diluted back to 25 Litres at 1049 with boiling water.

Thats about 70% efficency which is not bad for a 1st go, also I lost 1.5 Litres because my hop strainer came apart. If I get a better one hopefully that will help.

Its now cooling in the bath, in an enclosed sanitised FV, but since it was going in near boiling it should be ok for tomorrow?

WishboneBrewery · Post by **WishboneBrewery** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:52 pm

should be good to pitch in the morning

I'm getting a brew on in the morning and it will be the first time i've force-cooled so fingers crossed I'm looking forward to seeing the cold break material

mysterio · Post by **mysterio** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:04 pm

MMmm looks good. Good work.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:09 pm

Good stuff.

Being a stout I will have no issues with clarity my IPA may though, when I make it next week.

In other good news approximatly 125grams of cascade = 140grams that means i have 200 grams of lovley Hops to use in my IPA.

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:28 pm

All tucked up now fermenting at 19C.

WishboneBrewery · Post by **WishboneBrewery** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:06 pm

Nice one.
Mines just been put to bed with its Nottingham starter, should be working in no time

196osh · Post by **196osh** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:00 pm

Smells gorgous.

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