HokieHomeBrew

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Capecodwhale

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HokieHomeBrew,
Have you brewed this again? Changed anything? Could you give any tasting notes, if you can remember?

mttfrog13

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I happened to be brewing something very close to his recipe this weekend. I've never made a stout so i wanted to go light on the chocolate and roasted barley and be able to scale up if I need to. If I feel it's too light on the roastiness, I will likely brew Hokie's recipe next time, but a partial mash. Hopefully northernbrewer gets their maris otter LME back in stock soon.

Brew Method: Partial Mash
Style Name: Sweet Stout
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5 gallons
Boil Size: 3 gallons
Estimated Efficiency: 65%

ESTIMATED STATS:
Original Gravity: 1.055
Final Gravity: 1.015
ABV (standard): 5.22%
IBU (tinseth): 28.68
SRM (morey): 36.98

FERMENTABLES:
3 lb - Dry Malt Extract - Light - (late addition) (33.3%)
2.5 lb - Pale 2-Row (27.8%)
1 lb - Milk Sugar - (late addition) (11.1%)
0.5 lb - Flaked Barley (5.6%)
0.5 lb - English Crystal 60L (5.6%)
0.5 lb - Pale Chocolate 180L (5.6%)
0.5 lb - American Roasted Barley 300L (5.6%)
0.5 lb - De-Husked Caraf III 450L (5.6%)

HOPS:
0.5 oz - Willamette (AA 4.5) for 60 min, Type: Pellet, Use: Boil
1 oz - Kent Goldings (AA 5) for 60 min, Type: Leaf/Whole, Use: Boil

MASH STEPS:
1) Temperature, Temp: 154 F, Time: 60 min, Amount: 6.25 qt
2) Sparge, Temp: 170 F, Time: 0 min, Amount: 6.25 qt

OTHER INGREDIENTS:
1 tablet - Whirlfloc, Time: 10 min, Type: Other, Use: Boil

YEAST:
Fermentis / Safale - Safale - English Ale Yeast S-04

PRIMING:
Method: Corn Sugar (dextrose)
Amount: 3.5 oz

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HokieHomeBrew

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Yes, actually I just brewed it again a few weeks ago. Have it on nitro tap right now. The only thing I changed was reduced the roasted barley to 0.25 lb because I thought the original version was a little too roasty. Other than that, I have brewed this recipe 4 times and it comes out delicious every time! Let me know how it goes if you brew it!

Capecodwhale

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I plan on it, when I finally get a chance. Have you substituted with any other yeasts? I am not familiar with your choice.
Also, have you brewed it without the lactose? The reason I ask, is I brewed a milk stout with lactose and it was good but had a slight sour note to it, which I attributed to the lactose.

HokieHomeBrew

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I have brewed it with other yeasts. The yeast I used you can only get from northern brewer. it is their proprietary english strain. i have brewed with london ale and british ale. both came out good. my guess is any good english strain would work just find. i have also used ringwood. never brewed it without the lactose. it wouldn't be a cream stout afterall . I have not gotten any sour notes so maybe you had old lactose or somethign?

mgortel

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Looks tasty! I will have to try this one......

Am I correct in assuming you did a yeast starter for this?

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HokieHomeBrew

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I actually did not. Probably would make it even better if I did! Haha. Let me know how it turns out.

FastAndy

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i made this on saturday, followed your recipe but added a half pound of oats because i love the mouth feel you get from oats. It looked awesome in the kettle, i ended up at 1.056 so we'll see how it goes. Fermentation took off and was really churning for two days.

Cheers

HokieHomeBrew

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You gotta let me know how it comes out with tthe oats. Cheers.