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Competitions / 14 weeks to go until Nationals...
Last post by Matt DBrewer - February 11, 2024, 12:55:36 AM
While there may not be time to start on that Méthode Traditionnelle masterpiece you were thinking about, there is definitely still time to get brewing most styles for the National Homebrewing Championships... so consider this the friendly kick you were waiting on to get brewing!
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Best Recipes / Re: Guinness Extra Stout Recip...
Last post by phildo79 - February 06, 2024, 08:42:31 AM
Personally, I wouldn't be overly concerned with hitting the SRM bang on. Could you do something like 8% roasted barley and 2% black patent?
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Best Recipes / Re: Guinness Extra Stout Recip...
Last post by biertourist - February 02, 2024, 10:16:03 PM
Update: I recently switched to the Grainfather tool and am getting very strange results out of it vs. BeerSmith on wort color.

BeerSmith says 70/20/10 Pale/Flaked/Roast scaled up to 1.056 OG and 5.6% ABV with a dark roast barley like Crisp does indeed result in a 45 SRM beer.


Adam
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Best Recipes / Re: Guinness Extra Stout Recip...
Last post by biertourist - February 02, 2024, 08:57:09 PM
If I have the beer statistics right:
5.6% ABV
47 IBUs
45 SRM


Playing around with a few grists, and trying to hit the numbers above, even with an approx 700 SRM quite dark roast barley and using a 2 SRM Pale base malt, it seems that Extra Stout would need more than 10% Roast barley to hit 45 SRM. (The color increases faster than the strength vs. standard Guinness, so it would seem that the % of Roast Barley needs to, also...)

66.7% Pale (2.0 SRM) -I'm assuming they're still using the Cork Stout malt
20% Flaked Barley (1.7 SRM)
13.3% Crisp Roast Barley @ (696.6 SRM) -definitely on the dark side

I ended up with:

OG: 1.057
FG: 1.014
ABV: 5.62%
IBU: 46.5%
SRM: 45.2%



Seems reasonable enough to me, anyone argue for any changes? (I'd pull 3% of the basemalt and replace with acidulated, and doubt it will change the color.)


Thanks,

Adam
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Best Recipes / Guinness Extra Stout Recipe - ...
Last post by biertourist - February 02, 2024, 08:03:00 PM
Can anyone share a good grist for a Guinness Extra Stout clone?

I know Dempsey and Nigel advocate for 70/20/10 Pale/Flaked/Roast and 3% acidulated if you want the sour note, for standard Guinness but I'm assuming that you don't just equally scale the ingredients with the move to Extra Stout gravity (I'd guess that the Pale % increases with extra, but it's only a guess)...

Do you go with even MORE acid malt for the move to Extra Stout?  I vaguely recall ancient discussions that Extra Stout's pH was even lower vs. Standard Guinness and I'm not clear if this just comes from a lager quantity of Roast barley, or if it's coming from the elusive possible acidification?


Adam
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Garden County Brewers / February 2024 meet
Last post by pob - February 02, 2024, 10:48:45 AM
2nd meet of the year

Location: Parlour (behind the bar) in The Harbour Bar, 1 Strand Road, Bray (opposite the harbour).

Date: Thursday 8th February @ 8.00pm

All welcome, come down whether you have a beer or not.

Good to see new & old faces; bringing a beer, 1 litre should do.


Come on in for an evening of talking & tasting anything homebrewed.


Reminder, buy some beer too (keep them happy).


1. Peter
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Capital Brewers / Re: Jan 2024 meet: Wed 31st Ja...
Last post by MichaelE - January 30, 2024, 08:50:36 PM
1. Ronan
2. Stephen - Imperial session tripel (5.9%)
3. Ross- Belgian Double
4. Paul - Pumpkin Ale
5. Austin - Best Bitter
6. Aaron - Double NEIPA
7. Peter - Altbier
8. Steph - American DIPA, Double Alt
9. Des - something brown Porter stoutish
10. Rich - BJCP commercial example of Red IPA, from the States
11. Padraic - Voss hazy IPA
12. Michael - Munich Dunkel
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Events / Re: National comp 2024?
Last post by CC - January 30, 2024, 07:17:16 PM
Great stuff-

Thanks to all involved in organising,

Colm
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Capital Brewers / Re: Jan 2024 meet: Wed 31st Ja...
Last post by padraic_ - January 30, 2024, 04:52:21 PM
1. Ronan
2. Stephen - Imperial session tripel (5.9%)
3. Ross- Belgian Double
4. Paul - Pumpkin Ale
5. Austin - Best Bitter
6. Aaron - Double NEIPA
7. Peter - Altbier
8. Steph - American DIPA, Double Alt
9. Des - Late & moochin
10. Rich - BJCP commercial example of Red IPA, from the States
11. Padraic - Voss hazy IPA
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