Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Guinness Clone

Towns Inn Guinness Stout Knockoff
Ingredients:
7 # Dark Malt Extract
1 # Dark Cane Sugar
1/3 # Roasted Barley
1/3 # Black Patent Malt
1 # Crystal Malt (80 lov)
2 oz Willamette Hops (Boiling)
1 pkg Wyeast Irish Ale yeast
Procedure:
Steep roasted barley, black patent and crystal malts in 2
1/2 gallons of water while bringing to a boil. Remove grains at boil.
Add dark cane sugar and extract, and boiling hops and boil for
60 minutes. Before racking to primary fermenter, Pitch yeast when cooled
below 90 degrees F.
Primary Fermentation: 7 days
Secondary Fermentation: 7 days
Add 3/4 cup corn sugar to 1 cup of boiling water and cool to 75 degrees and at to the beer bottling bucket at bottling.
Age: about 6-8 days

4 comments:

Brett Begani said...

1.057 OG
brought grains to steep at 155deg for 30 min
full 5.5gal boil
add 1.3oz northern brewer hops for aroma last 10min boil
add 1000ml irish ale yeast starter

Brett Begani said...

Fermentation began last night sometime, it's bubbling happily away.

Brett Begani said...

1.024 F.G. Kegged. wooooot.

Brett Begani said...

beautiful flavor, nice rich head (12psi keg), great mouthfeel. this was almost perfect, I think only Nitrogen would make it better.