Truman 1890 Export Stout

[Invalid Stout]

I'm attempting this tonight. I'm a bit nervous as I don't usually make beers this strong.

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2010 ... xport.html

English pale 5.176kg (77%)
Brown malt 0.929kg (13.8%)
Black malt 0.619kg (9.2%)

Hops
Fuggles 4.5% 120min 131.5g
Fuggles 4.5% 30min 39.1g
Fuggles 4.5% dry hop 32.9g

Target OG is 1.075. I don't have enough Fuggles so I'm thinking of substituting Challenger for most of the bittering addition. Or possibly Aurora. Any thoughts on that?

The mash looks and tastes like chocolate Ready Brek at the moment.

[steve_flack]

It's probably too late I'd I'd probably go with Challenger.

[Invalid Stout]

It is too late, yes, I used Aurora. They smelt great and not too dissimilar to the Fuggles so I hope it will work out.

[mysterio]

Aurora are nice hops, tropical fruit flavour. What yeast?

[Deebee]

Updates??

[Invalid Stout]

Yeast is cultured up from a bottle of Youngs Bitter. Unfortunately I undershot my target gravity quite spectacularly and only got 1.054. I think I overestimated the amount of evaporation during the boil and liquored back too much pre-cooling. I should really take gravity readings pre-boil, but it's such a pain.

Wort tastes good though

[Invalid Stout]

This beer is jinxed. The yeast didn't take off after 48 hours so I chucked in some US-05. I hope it'll still be a nice beer but I'll be brewing it again sooner rather than later in an attempt to get it right.

[Gricey]

It's all about the flavour. It'll be fine

[Invalid Stout]

It's all about the flavour. It'll be fine

I hope so, and because I sparged too much I'll have lots of it

[Invalid Stout]

Everything has gone wrong with this beer except the taste. I bottled it tonight only to find the finishing gravity was ... 1.024! I know it's 20% roast malt but that's a high FG.

It tastes fine, really rich roastiness and intense hop flavour.

I think I'll be drinking this fairly quickly so that the bottles don't start fermenting again and explode.

[coatesg]

1024 is quite high from an OG of 1054, but then not miles off from my Whitbread porter (1064->1020 at racking) - this was almost the same as the Whitbread historical records that Ron has in a post somewhere for a beer from that time.

However, mine has continued to produce quite a bit of CO2 in the keg and I've been degassing a little every two weeks - I think slow secondary fermentation continues for a while with a beer like this. If you bottled with priming, I would keep a very close eye on these...!

[Invalid Stout]

According to the recipe it should have had an OG of 1075 and finish at 1016!