Need a Peat-Smoked Stout Recipe

[biertourist]

I'll happily take any information anyone has on making Shandon Century Extra Stout.

Or in using peat-smoked stout in general. 

From what I remember the peat was very much just lingering and hiding in the background in Shandon Century.
Does anyone have OG, FG or IBU numbers for Shandon stout?  -I've long since removed the label from my beautiful 1L fliptop bottle...


I've asked and asked and asked the Well for any info for few years now to no avail.  They won't even make the dang thing again so I'm going to make it myself.


I think I'm going to start with my bog oak smoked oatmeal stout recipe and just make it with 0% smoked malt and drop the hop levels on that one and then cold smoke peat smoked malt and add it to taste in 1 keg.  Then I can have one keg of oatmeal stout and one of peat-smoked oatmeal stout for St. Patrick's day...  -Unless I get some good advice otherwise / a clone recipe for Shandon Century.



Adam

[biertourist]

If I get brave and just use the peat-smoked stout I'm either going to go with 1% or 1.5%.

I don't want it to be too intense; I just want it lingering in the background.


Adam

[Bubbles]

Hi Adam,

I can't help with a clone recipe, but I've used peated malt in a stout before.

I found 150g of peat smoked malt (in a 19 litre batch) was enough to give a nice flavour. But if you're going for subtle, you might want to use slightly less. Of course, mileage varies with these malts, some might be smokier than others. The only thing to do is buy a big bag of the stuff and brew a couple of batches so you can adjust the % if necessary. i used the Brewferm "lightly peated", if that helps.

[biertourist]

Thanks for the info, it seems that the maltsters now list just how peated their peated malt is.  It seems that they list the amount of peat used in parts per million of peat (whatever that means) and also "low, medium, and high phenol / peat smoke flavor".


Adam

[auralabuse]

I have peat cut from an offaly bog just recently if you would like some for smoking

[biertourist]

I have peat cut from an offaly bog just recently if you would like some for smoking

Thanks for the offer but I live in Seattle now and I have the feeling I could buy a LOT of peat-smoked malt for the cost of shipping just to get a peat log to Seattle. ;-)


Adam

[auralabuse]

Haha,  ahh,  no probs.