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There is a great difference between Guinnesss Draught Guinness Extra Stout Guinness Foreign Extra Stout If you get a pint on tap, or there is a widget in the bottle, or it is out of a can, it is Guinness Draught. This is a session beer, normally too watery for my taste except if I want...

Well, I did let it sit a leetle bit longer than maybe I should, but both my pale ale (8 wks) and my steam beer (6 weeks) went from primary to bottle to belly and came out just fine. I admit I should have bottled a bit sooner, but these are both goooood beers (the CA beer needs a bit more time...

I see - I guess I'm a sheltered brewer. My local brew store sells LME in bulk, so I could get pretty much exactly what I wanted. Thanks, all, for an A to the noob's latest dumb Q.

I see lots of recipes with both LME and DME. How come? Is there a benefit to using both? So far I have just bought LME from my local shop.

The only problem with the starter is once I make it, I'm committed. Just warming the vial three hours before pitching is real convenient, but I like the idea of fully woke up and happily reproducing yeasties. Learning slowly but learning - no secondary fermenter any more, six weeks in the...

Just brewed an IPA Sunday. Since our house usually is quite cool in the winter (64-66), I was concerned with pitching enough yeast. I use the White Labs vials, in this case London Ale. So this time I made a starter with 1/4 pound of light DME. Wow!:ban: Tremendously active in less than...

Just too many good beers around here for reasonable prices to spend that much. I do swing out once a month or so and get a couple of bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, but we get stuff like Deschutes Red Chair, Ninkasi's whole lineup, and our local non-bottling breweries for far less. In...

Very aromatic - the first storebought beer I have had that wowed me by the aroma before my first taste.

Been waiting almost 10 months for this stuff....man, is it good! Buying a whole bunch this winter, the goal is to clone. But in the meantime...... :):mug:

I actually have a taster for stouts. By that I mean I have been drinking them, a wide variety, for way longer than I have been brewing. But this one spent about two weeks in primary, and 6 in secondary. Maybe that helps? My IPA's tend to taste like I am eating raw hops till they've been in...

Lucky you don't live in Minnesota!:ban:

Noob, here, with a total of seven or eight batches under my belt (just look, they're all right there...).:D I bottle, never have kegged. Right now just bottle the 22oz-ers, as I like a real glass of beer when I sit down to have one - bought some nice big beer glasses just for that purpose.:)...

70 degrees in my house is a real challenge this time of year. So, maybe more weeks at 65.....

Thanks! :mug::mug: I learn slow, but I does learn. 'Course, if its hot or sharp, I can learn real fast.....

Revvy, have you sunk to just copying and pasting your posts? Seems I read this before.....:) (And NO critique there - the answer is well-repeated). As a noob, I'm still opening them a bit young - I have enjoyed tasting the progression from crap to, well, not crap. I usually sample once a...

Just bottled today. During fermentation, the stuff was rather entertaining at the huge amount of bubbling in my airlock. As active as the Calif Lager yeast was in primary, should I expect a faster carbonation? Yes, I am very impatient. This is a fine tasting brew, even before carbonating...

Just began drinking a stout I made that is very similar to Guiness Extra Stout in mouthfeel and taste. I REALLY like the recently-released-in-the-USA Foreign Extra Stout by Guiness. Two questions as I get ready to brew up another batch of stout: How do I increase the thickness and retention...

Update. Success. You told me so! Bottled two weeks ago, carbonated nicely, a really good stout. SWMBO says make another batch quick before this one is gone. Lessons learned: Specific Gravity Stay in Primary Specific Gravity and Specific Gravity Cheers! I'll have another sip...

My first real beer was a Guiness Extra Stout. My wife and I both will invariably be drawn back to Guiness - not draught - Stout on those rainy Oregon nights by the fireplace. I love the hoppy stuff (again, I live in OR) - but the beer that puts it all together for me is Guiness Foreign Extra...

Revvy, what about just taking a sanitzed racking cane and stirring up the trub, and then moving to a bit warmer location? Is there any sense in that?