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Stout of my Head

Fermentables:
Golden Promise 1800g
Flaked Barley 500g
Roasted Hemp Seed 250g
Wheat Malt 100g
Crystal Malt, Dark 100g
Roasted Barley 90g
Chocolate Malt 80g
(I also added a tiny bit of Maize which might just act like Corn Flour and Set my Mash!)

Hops:
Northdown 60 mins 25g (FWH)

Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.048
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV
Total Liquor: 19.1 Litres
Mash Liquor: 7.3 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 40 EBU
Colour: 172 EBC

Grain weighed out, Golden Promise Malt, Flaked Barley, Dark Crystal Malt,Roasted Barley, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Hemp Seed,Gypsum, Coffee ground Corn I picked while out walking:

Grain Temp:

Treated water going into the Boiler, Just heating up enough for a little over the Mash Volume:

Mashing, I got the other half to take this shot:

After a bit of messing about, mash on at 9am @ 67.6C for 90mins:

pH right on the money, I'm going to give up using these test strips as every mash I've done so far has been close enough not to bother:

Grain bed at end of mash:

Mash temp at 90mins:

Northdown FWH:

Hops in the wort, its really dark I think I got more colour than I bargained for! Mash efficiency says 80.5% which could be more than planned due to some extract from the Roasted Hemp:

The Recycling Crew:

Just come to a nice rolling boil:

Trub at the bottom of the boiler:

OG: 1044 @ 22c so near enough to predicted 1048:


A pretty easy brewday, sparge ran off lovely and clear with no sign of anything sticking. Did a quick mix and ran off without letting it settle, both batches were good, could it be this technique or the fact that I had Flaked barley in there that kept the grain bed structure more open??

Pitched s-04 just Dry sprinkled at 22C and put to bed

Looks good. Nice name.

Looks good matey! hope you have a great brew day. I've just had a cracker with 4 shades!

Nice name!

the recipe looks good too pal.

Pics added Started lazily at about 8am, mash on at 9am

All done, one of my easier brewdays...
Its a dark bugger, got loads of roasted and some burnt type flavours in the wort.
Should prove interesting if it doesn't taste like burnt hemp seeds

Nice day by the look of it - I've never thought of giving the dog the left over mash! Ours usually goes to our minature Shetland who wets himself at the sight of it .

farmhousekeg wrote:Nice day by the look of it - I've never thought of giving the dog the left over mash! Ours usually goes to our minature Shetland who wets himself at the sight of it .

Which end do you put it in?

I Just give the dogs a few spoons full, they sh!t grain pretty well!!! I was quite surprised they tucked in so well to a stout mash, I thought the roasted grains might have put them off... though saying that the white dog eats cat poo too, so there's no accounting for taste!

pdtnc wrote:

farmhousekeg wrote:Nice day by the look of it - I've never thought of giving the dog the left over mash! Ours usually goes to our minature Shetland who wets himself at the sight of it .

Which end do you put it in?

I Just give the dogs a few spoons full, they sh!t grain pretty well!!! I was quite surprised they tucked in so well to a stout mash, I thought the roasted grains might have put them off... though saying that the white dog eats cat poo too, so there's no accounting for taste!

He he.....yes that was my first thought when I saw your dogs tucking in - "OMG they will be shi**ing through the eye of a needle" I ration the pony for exactly the same reasons - he would eat the entire mash if he got the chance - doesn't even wait until it cools down. Last weekend I filled his bowl and left it to cool about a yard from his fence but eventually had to give it to him cos he was threatening to break out his field to reach it

We also have a cat poo eating Chihuahua

mad for it!! ha ha

why is it you dont see white dog poo any more?

Dunno...
That would be a question for Vic Reeves. (who once did a photography Exhibition of dog poo)

Ha ha, stout of my head! Great name. Theres no more white dog poo because the bone meal that was the white (calcium) was removed due to being bad for fido, apparently.
Really wanted to do a stout these past two weeks, I have to boil outside, a combination of deluge and illness have meant my going without. I'm jealous!
Great pics and recipe, especially the hemp. 'Inneressing' as Neil Young would say.
pip pip
micmacmoc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young ??
Thats a bit over my head, or maybe before my time ??!

Thanks for the Dog poo update

great pics fella.

will let my cairn terrier have some left over mash next time methinks, yours seem to love it!