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Offline Phil_M

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Dry Irish Stout (Extract)
« on: January 18, 2016, 06:30:14 pm »
I'm working on tweaking NB's Dry Irish Stout extract kit for St. Pat's day. I've brewed this kit a couple times, and it's never quite as dry as I find Guinness to be.

Does anyone know what the FG if Guinness Draught is? I believe it's 1.007-1.008, but an internet search hasn't helped. The lowest I've gotten the NB extract kit to ferment down to is 1.012. I event tried the all-grain kit, only got that down to 1.010. (Of course, that would be easier to fix than extract…)

The plan is to use a portion of invert sugar to drop the FG some, with the amount based on the delta between the Guinness FG and the 1.011-1.012 that seems to be expected from the kit.
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