Guiness clone (aka Dirty Badger)

[wrightpc87]

For any guiness lovers who are out there...

I brewed this beer recently, without any intention of it tasting like guiness at all. I simply wanted to use up a load of ingredients I had left over from previous brews. The reason behind the name dirty badger, was because part of the grain bill was wheat.... 9/10 times this results in a cloudy/murky beer even with finings.

The resulting colour and taste was immensely different from what I was expecting, and I have a few family and friends who after sampling said they were shocked how similar to guiness it was.

I hope someone gets some good results from following my method detailed in the attached picture.... I am eager to hear what other people's experiences are with it

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Recipe?

[wrightpc87]

Apologies... For some reason unable to attach picture.

Here goes:

Batch size 22 litres.

Marris Otter pale = 3000g
Munich malt = 1000g
Crystal malt = 500g
Amber wheat malt = 285g
Crystal wheat malt = 285g
Crushed chocolate malt = 430g

Strike temp - 85 degrees
Mash temp - 65 degrees
Mash duration - 60 mins
Mash liquid - 12 litres
Boil duration - 60 mins

Hops:

East Kent Goldings = 50g
Cascade = 50g
*** hops in for duration of boil***

OG = 1.046
FG = 1.012

4.5% ABV

[Rookie]

I recently did a no-boil extract stout that came out very Guinness like.
I cold steeped 8 ounces of roast barley, 4 ounces of caraffa II, and 4 ounces of blackprinz overnight. But stupidly left the cold steep out of the fridge at room temperature inadvertently doing a mini sour mash.
It's actually pretty good.