whats your best guinness recipe?

[Timo]

Thinking of doing this next or soon but I have one question. I have never brewed an AG stout before, do you need to add a finning agent like 3g of Irish moss in the last 15mins of the boil?

[alfie09]

i dont think its needed anyway i never do

[EoinMag]

It really is worth using White labs Irish Ale yeast to make a Guinness clone, someone already said don't waste time on liquid yeast, I'd absolutely disagree and say get your hands on the Irish ale yeast and go with that. I did a stout a while back and this yeast definitely added a super Guinness like taste to the mix even though it's not really what I was aiming for.

[Kinley]

I have this maturing in a corney at the moment.

Cridhe Dubh Stout

Chocolate Malt 250 grams 4.9%
Flaked Oats 500 grams 9.8%
Flaked Barley 500 grams 9.8%
Roasted Barley 250 grams 4.9%
Oat malt 500 grams 9.8%
Pale Malt 3100 grams 60.8%

Willamette Whole 4.7 % 90 mins 15 grams 18.8%
Challenger Whole 7.6 % 90 mins 10 grams 12.5%
Fuggle Whole 4.9 % 90 mins 15 grams 18.8%
Willamette Whole 4.7 % 10 mins 20 grams 25%
Fuggle Whole 4.9 % 10 mins 20 grams 25%

Final Volume: 23 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.046
Final Gravity: 1.013
Alcohol Content: 4.2% ABV
Total Liquor: 33.4 Litres
Mash Liquor: 12.8 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 75 %
Bitterness: 31.8952310418354 EBU
Colour: 201 EBC

Mash at 66C, fly sparge and I got 78% efficiency in the end. I used two sachets of Gervin, rehydrated before pitching, fermented at 18C, 1 week. Dextrose in the corney with a dash of Co2 to seal. Natural carbonation kept itself at 20PSI.

It is exactly what I was aiming for. Plenty of malty-coffee-fruit flavours on the nose. But although the body is full and rich it is super smooth and does not feel heavy to drink. For fans of bottled (original guiness) this is good.

[dave-o]

do you actually think guinness use target hops? i dont and it certainly doesnt taste that way. and guess what they wouldn't tell me either i did email them they said if i knew that i woud probally give that information out and people will try and make it them selves!

I honestly think that with a massively commercial beer such as Guinness, the processes it goes through would make it difficult to really tell what bittering hop was used, unless it was something really off-style.