Quaffing stout 20-09-08

[delboy]

have this in the boiler at the moment.

3.9 Kg Lager malt
0.28 Kg Flaked Barley
0.18 Kg Roasted Barley
0.18 Kg Choc malt (light)
0.18 Kg crystal
0.10 Kg special B
0.08 Kg light crystal

Special B and light crystal was bit of a clearing the stocks exercise.

Water treatment 11g CaCl and 4g NaCl

mash at 66C for 2 hrs (was taking the dogs for a walk)

60 mins 45 g of challenger (35 IBU)

Will be fermenting this with a 2L starter of WL023

[Horden Hillbilly]

Have a good one del, enjoy it!

[aceuass]

Im also looking to do a stout and was interested to see you used lager malt, what difference would that make.
Cheers
Paul

[delboy]

Im also looking to do a stout and was interested to see you used lager malt, what difference would that make.
Cheers
Paul

The way i look at it a stout is all about the speciality malts as appose to say a pale ale where the base malt forms a large component of the overall flavour. Regardless if you use optic, MO, lager or what as the base malt it doesn't really matter as the subtle flavour of the base malt is lost amongst the strong speciality malts such as roast barley and choc malt.

The reason i used lager malt is that i have a big bag of it and only a small amount of MO left which i intend to use in a light ale where i will be able to taste it.

[Garth]

Looks great del, keep us posted

I love stout me

[delboy]

Its actually a variation of the hopback stout recipe you posted garth, looking forward to it already

[Garth]

nice one

[mysterio]

Looks tasty. WLP023 in a stout should be interesting.