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I thought i'd have a go at brewing my first stout and since a few on here have brewed this with good results i thought i'd have a go.
It will be intresting to see how i like it as the only stout i've drunk is guiness, oh and a Dark Star imperial stout i had the other weekend.

23 litre brew length
5000.00 gm Pale Malt
283.00 gm Chocolate Malt
283.00 gm Oats, Flaked + toasted
103.00 gm Roasted Barley
64.00 gm Goldings, East Kent [4.50 %] (90 min) Hops 30.4 IBU
1tsp Irish Moss
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Estimated OG 1.048 with 65% efficiency

i wont be brewing until tommorrow and will update with pics. Just toasting the oats now and crushing the roasted barley with a pestle and mortar ready for an early start tommorrow, well 9 ish.

Yum.

Good luck with it!

I'm drinking a pint of this now, cracking stuff. Comes into its own after 3 or 4 weeks in the keg. Good luck with it.

Does indeed sound good

I have 50 litres of this in the fv, needs racking really tomorrow

I have made it before, it is indeed a cracking pint. Good luck with the brewday

I have 50l of this at the moment, brewed 2 weeks ago and kegged (2 full size Cornies and a baby Corny) last Monday. It tastes really good already

Quite a smooth brewday really, except i got distracted by the Grand Prix and had a slight boil over.
Here's the pics:

Grain bill:


Starting mash temp:


Finishing Mash Temp:


Batch Sparging with the grain bag:


Over did the sparging slightly:


Very slow runoff from the boiler, the hop strainer came loose and the tap clogged up:


Runoff stopped at this point with still 4 litres or so of Stout i wasnt willing to leave behind so put the sieve to work:


Got the yeast going with some wort ran off from the boiler half way through:


Fermenting Nicely the next morning:


I ended up with a little over 26 litre's with a gravity of 1.051. I was expecting 23 litre's at 1.048 so am pretty pleased with the outcome. Gravity is down to 1.030 already, and of coarse tasted the sample which suprised me as it was very drinkable. I dont normally like the sample's at this point so i have hich hopes. It had quite a smoky aroma too it.

All bottled now. I thought id have a go at seeing how it carbonates with no priming sugar in it, as per the graham wheeler book. Only trying it on one small bottle though to see how it goes.

Good stuff.

If that tastes anything like Samuel Smiths I will be adding that to my to brew list, when I get my gear together.