[klickitat jim]

Just for fun, brewing this today.

8# Golden Promise
2# Pale Chocolate
1 oz carafa II special (just to get the green check mark)

Mashed it at 148°

44g EKG at 60

Going to pitch WY1084 (fresh start off my Irish Red) after 60 seconds of O2. 55° till krausen starts to fall then walk it up to 68° over a week or so.

I'm looking for toasty nutty dry with just a hint of Belfast

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[denny]

Looks tasty!  FWIW, the "classic" dry stout formula is 70% pale, 20% flaked and 10% roasted.

[denny]

Looks tasty, although maybe closer to a porter!  FWIW, the "classic" dry stout formula is 70% pale, 20% flaked and 10% roasted.

[dkfick]

Denny beat me to it... I'm not sure you'll get that roasted barley character you expect in a dry stout with this recipe... Though that's not to say it won't be good ;-)

[erockrph]

Let us know how it comes out. Looks like a roasty brown ale ( a Black Brown Ale?) to me.

[klickitat jim]

Ya, I'm ignoring the style guide on this one. Reducing the roasty and going toasty n nutty.

[majorvices]

Looks delicious. But it's going to be more like a porter than a stout. You'll need a fair amount of roasted barley (or the argument could be made for black roasted malt) if you are going for  stout.

[klickitat jim]

No doubt that's accurate. I fumbled for what style to call it with the Irish yeast... how about Irish Brown?

[klickitat jim]

By the way here's my Irish Red that I thought was too sweet. Its not. Was my hop coated palate fooling me.

[klickitat jim]

Frankly, this is a dry stout. Tastes like a cross between Guinness and Murphy's. Minus the dead rats, or 3% skunked beer, or lambs blood... or nitrogen. Its plenty toasty, very dry, and light bodied. It does need a touch more carbonation and to sit still a day from being moved into the house.

[beersk]

What gravity did it finish at? And post a picture!

[klickitat jim]

I could see 1.010 above the beer so I called it 1.010, but probably 1.008-9

[klickitat jim]

Here's the photo. The red dot is the sun shining through it. Hard to capture on phone camera, but there's no turbidity, it's just very dark. Also very tasty.

[Joe Sr.]

Looks awesome Jim.

I have trouble getting a nice white head on my stouts.


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[klickitat jim]

Thanks, tye head is kind of latte foam colored. The sunlight hitting the top makes it look white.  Definitely the best stout ive made. Very tasty and quaffable