I recently took a Shakespear Sout clone and added about an oz of Hazelnut extract to it at flame out. It's been in the bottle for about a week and I opened a bottle just for a sampler. Carbonation has a little way to go as expected but eveything is there for my first truley great brew!
the only thing I would like is for it to have turned out a nice deep black. Instead I got a very dark but very brown color. Any tips for getting a blacker stout? Here is the recipie below
(5 gallons, extract with grains)
Ingredients (Included):
6.5 lbs dark LME
1.0 lbs Dark DME
1.0 lb Briess 2-Row Pale Malt
0.5 lb Dingemans Special B
0.5 lb Chocolate Malt
0.25 lb Roasted Barley
0.5 lb Briess Flaked Oats
1 oz Cascade (Bittering 1st Addition)
1 oz Cascade (Bittering 2nd Addition)
1 oz Cascade (Flavoring)
1 oz Cascade (Finishing)
1 oz Hazelnut extract
If you must have it darker some black patent or Carafa would darken it up. Looking at your recipe I can't imagine this beer would be anything except black as night. Maybe a picture would help?
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Looking forward to brewing some beer
Great beer, wrong color.
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