AG#42 - Odd Ends Stout

[WishboneBrewery]

Odd Ends Stout - This is going to be as black as a black thing, the mash starting to colour well straight after mashing in
This recipe uses up a load of odd bits of malt up, some fairly old but frozen Willamette hops and a few Sovereign hops left from last weeks Porter.

Fermentables:
Pale Malt - 3400g - 63.1%
Carafa Special III - 405g - 7.6%
Lager Malt - 400g - 7.4%
Flaked Maize - 375g - 7%
Amber Malt - 270g - 5.1%
Brown Malt - 235g - 4.4%
Black Malt - 100g - 1.9%
Flaked Oats - 92g - 1.7%
Crystal Malt, Dark - 48g - 0.9%
Chocolate Malt - 28g - 0.5%
Crystal Rye Malt - 22g - 0.4%

Hops:
Willamette @ 60 mins - 48g
Willamette @ 30 mins - 48g
Sovereign @ 5 mins - 25g

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.055
Final Gravity: 1.017
Alcohol Content: 4.9% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.7 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.9 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 38 EBU
Colour: 253 EBC

90 minute Mash with 60 minute boil.
Yeast is Nottingham
Water treatment is almost the General purpose profile in the GW calc with the Calcium Chloride upped to the same amount as the Calcium Sulphate.
Calcium Sulphate: 6.3g
Calcium Chloride: 6.3g
Magnesium Sulphate: 3g
I omitted the common salt & chalk additions.

Blended malts & Water Treatment Salts:

Strike Temp:

Doughing in:

Mash Temp aimed for and attained:

Hops at FWH, 30mins, 5mins, protafloc & old yeast:

Blooming good mash efficiency:

FWH getting the First runnings from the Mash Tun:

Boiler Almost full:

Natural Gas burner:

30min Hops going in:

5 minute hops and old yeast as nutrient going in:

1052+ on the Hydrometer, the refractometer says 14 brix which is near as dam it 1055:


All cleared up, yeast pitched House Smells of Stout!

[Kev888]

Looks interesting - I quite like leftovers brews, as you sometimes discover combos you wouldn't normally try. Also looks tasty - I normally make bitters or IPAs and the odd mild and porter, but seeing this I'm thinking maybe its time I tried a nice dark one too.

Hope it turns out well!

Cheers
Kev

[kevthebootboy]

LOADS of stuff in that one!

i like the hop additions too, i like a stout with hops at the end, it gives it that little something extra,

nice work, let us know how it turns out yeah...

[WishboneBrewery]

All done a little while ago

[haz66]

WOW i bet you could tarmac your drive with that
One things for sure it should have loads of flavour, nice one.

[WishboneBrewery]

This one was crawling out of the bucket last night!

[WishboneBrewery]

FG 1012, tastes rather damn good out of the FV... can only get better with time. There is something good about stretching the boundaries of the dark malt percentages that make a Stout so much more satisfying
Whether to keg or bottle, I'm torn... I only wanted a 3.6-4% Stout for the Cornie really, and it would last longer in the bottle

[WishboneBrewery]

Early taster... bit too early, but its bottled well and carbed up nicely... its thick and dark with a good smoothness, Mmmm

[WishboneBrewery]

Still tasting brilliant this one too...

Future tweaks would be...

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Fermentable	Colour	lb: oz	Grams	Ratio
Pale Malt	5 EBC	8 lbs. 9.0 oz	3890 grams	70%
Crystal Malt	120 EBC	0 lbs. 15.6 oz	440 grams	8%
Carafa Special III	1200 EBC	0 lbs. 15.5 oz	440 grams	8%
Brown Malt	150 EBC	0 lbs. 9.8 oz	275 grams	5%
Flaked Oats	0 EBC	0 lbs. 9.7 oz	275 grams	5%
Amber Malt	100 EBC	0 lbs. 7.7 oz	220 grams	4%

Hop Variety	Type	Alpha	Time	lb: oz	grams	Ratio
Northdown	Whole	8.3 %	60 mins	0 lbs. 1.1 oz	30 grams	42.9%
Northdown	Whole	8.3 %	15 mins	0 lbs. 0.7 oz	20 grams	28.6%
Northdown	Whole	8.3 %	0 mins	0 lbs. 0.7 oz	20 grams	28.6%

Final Volume:	23	Litres
Original Gravity:	1.055	
Final Gravity:	1.016	
Alcohol Content:	5.1%	ABV
Total Liquor:	33.8	Litres
Mash Liquor:	13.3	Litres
Mash Efficiency:	80	%
Bitterness:	32	EBU
Colour:	232	EBC