stout

Due to my local water (philly), I've shifted to using full RO water and have been having a hard time with dialing it in. One of the things that throws me off is stripping back my starting pH from the average 6.8-7.2 to about 5.7-5.8~ Recently, I tried my stout recipe (grain bill & mash below)...

Hi guys, this is Mike in Bali Indonesia Has anyone tried to brew a porter or a stout with a high sulfite to chloride ratio? I'm wondering if there are any good iterations that could be done of it. I've done something like that with around a 3.0 sulfite to chloride as a black IPA. It was...

Hey guys, I am new to homebrewing. This is my second real batch. I recently started an oatmeal stout (extract recipe) in primary fermentation. After 24 hours there was no bubbling in the airlock (it's a large three-piece airlock). I put some yeast nutrient in it to encourage it a little. After...

Hi. I want to make a porter or stout (or similar dark beer) with a heavy taste of smoke. A couple of years ago i tried a beer called Dunkle Macht by Landgang Brauerei in Hamburg, and I really enjoyed the combination of a dark porter and lots of smoke. (1000 Getraenke | Biertest - Landgang Dunkle...

Given how happy I was with the Human Condition clone I made, I want to try and make another TH stout I fondly remember. Here is how TH describes the flavor: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28743/335837/ On youtube, while not a gluten free brewer, i like the way this guy describes...

I only recently got set up with a beer gas tank and stout faucet and have trouble with an excessive head on the dispensed beer. It may be that when it was originally kegged it was with CO2 only and I believe that this will have put too much into solution. What is my best option: (1) release...

Hello everyone, New to the Forum, been brewing for about 5 years, but recently made the step up to All Grain and have 7 really solid AG Batches under my belt. AG has made me fall in love with brewing all over again! Anyway, I'll cut to chase, I'm wanting to make a sweet, high ABV (between...

I was following a recipe for Whisky Barrel Stout and I did not read the instructions properly(my fault). I put the chips with grains in the steeping bag and steeped for 20 minutes at a temperature around 165-170 F. Will this be harmful for health? Will it still taste like oak? I feel it will...

Hi all, I don’t know if I’m all alone with this issue but after bottling and carbonation all of my stouts changes somehow. When they are fresh and in the kegs, theres no issue and they taste awesome but when they’re ready and packed, something happens. I can taste iron and acid flavor. What...

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I am a big fan of Tia Maria mixed with Guinness. I am thinking about brewing a kit beer that has similar notes to it. What would happen if I brewed a St Peters stout kit with a bottle (or two) of Tia Maria added to the mix? I am quite new to home-brewing and...

Hear me out....Next on my “Brewbucket List” is a sour stout, but looking at the threads and recipes on the topic, I don’t want to wait for Roeselare or bottle dregs to bring the funk and complexity when I do have a gallon of Dr. Lambic’s Flanders Red (Dr. Lambic’s Homebrewed Sour Red Ale), a...

https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/print/1219462 If anyone is interested and know the beer. I made this beer off a few ideas from other recipes as a starting point, as I got from their website what the grain bill is and hops and yeast used. The first test from fermenter are...

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I found this recipe on Ron Pattinson's blog, Shut Up About Barclay Perkins. Amstel is not a beer I know anything about except that they brew lagers. So it came as a surprise to see the word Stout attached to the Amstel name. I brewed this as soon as I read Ron's article which states that Stouts...

Good day everyone. I made an Irish stout, according to my own recipe. While pouring it for carbonation, I tried it. It turned out according to the recipe: there is a burnt taste and its aroma, as well as coffee and bread crusts. But it turned out to be a dry stout, and I wanted a sweet one...

I brewed a stout using Omega Yeast Lutra kveik. Let's go. Lutra® Kveik OG was 1075 and after 24 hours at 30°C (about 86°F), it reached 1027, making the beer about 6,3 %. The taste was quite harshly bitter. After 48 hours it is still at 1027 and tastes delicious. My question is, can this...

Hi fellow brewers So i want to experiment with a milk stout by "dry hopping" with toasted cacaonibs, vanilla and banana process to imitate a banana split dessert. However, i am worried that raw banana might contain too much fat to work properly in the beer, so i am thinking of using...

Hey all. I brewed an Irish stout that I am very excited about and I decided to keg it (first time kegging) and to nitro it (also first time nitrogenating). I have all the equipment, the tank, the regulator, the hoses, the diffusion stone, etc and I'm 90% sure that I know how to hook it all up to...

Hi guys :) I know that the acceptable level of magnesium for making beers is 0-40 ppm, but in most recipes it is around 5 ppm. I know that the malts have magnesium on sufficient level. But my question is: my water is 16 ppm and I'm wondering if it is too much for stout ? So it is 16 ppm plus...

Hey there, my wort is ready and I’m planning to add maple syrup to it in order to brew something closer to a pastry stout than a regular stout. I have 22 liter of wort, how many maple syrup should I add to that before I make all of this fermenting? Thanks in advance