Head Retention of stouts

[Covey]

I did the HBC AG art genisis kit (First ever stout). It turn out magic so i'm bewing it on Sat with the ale grain from MCI. While there is head retention id like more. will adding some wheat around 3% help or will it affect the taste cheers.

[Covey]

Thanks tubster i get ya

[Alex Lawes]

Would you not consider increasing the amount of flaked barley?


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[Covey]

another stupid question, do you mill flaked barley

[Eoin]

But. I will give a kind of heat you might not like the look of. It's kinda dirty looking, like dirty candy floss.

I don't understand what you're saying with that, I'm interested as I've used it once or twice, but the sentence above has the look of something that a phone has autocorrected into nonsense.

[Hop Bomb]

Any non nitro stouts Ive had in pubs have no head retention either. Par for the course no?

[Eoin]

Any non nitro stouts Ive had in pubs have no head retention either. Par for the course no?

Absolutely not, I've made stouts with great head retention and I've done that even from a vinotainer/polypin. So you don't need to use nitro.
Looking back at my Tiger blood stout it had wheat and oatmeal as adjuncts, this stuff was delicious.

Black patent 200g
Chocolate 500g
Crystal 1Kg
Wheat 1KG
Maris Otter 8KG
Roasted Barley 500g
Oat meal 500g


Marynka 60g 60 mins
Marynka 60g 30 Mins
Started with 65l of water, ended up with about 57l and then with losses to trub etc, about 55l out the end.
Mashed in at 69c
Irish Ale yeast/Guinness strain.
http://beernvictuals.blogspot.ie/2011/06/tiger-blood-stout-biab.html

[Covey]

Forgot to order flaked barley, bought 3 bags of flaked oat by mistake  : so no brew day this week end.

[Alex Lawes]

Flaked oats will do the same job. Go for it.

[Dr Jacoby]

Oats will give you head retention and a lovely thick body. Flaked barley will do the job too. Wheat is fine but the other two are probably better in stouts

[Hop Bomb]

How much head retention is classed as good head retention? Ive a nice head that lasts about 1/3 of a pint on my stouts. Then its just a bit of foam til the finish.

[Ciderhead]

Have you nitro?

[Hop Bomb]

No not yet. Ive perlick creamer faucets so I can blast a head on to it at the last bit of the pour.

[Ciderhead]

blast a head on to it

 


http://youtu.be/9mp646_H_xo

[Hop Bomb]

First pour of the keg from the keggerator on my dry stout. Carbed with CO2. I didnt use the creamer function on the tap as there was quiet a big head on it already.
From pour to finish is 50 mins there (slow pint - I was mending a puncture on my bike  )  Is this what you consider good head retention or bad head retention?