stout

Opened my stout in order to rack to secondary with bourbon/cacao nibs, and it has some of this white stuff on top. I'm generally not worried, but just want to make sure. Has an alcohol smell to it, more than a beer smell. Edit: took FG reading and it's at 5.25%ABV, so fermentation went well.

Hello everyone, This is Zeki, I and my wife have launched our Kickstarter campaign for our first batch. It is a delicious Turkish coffee and Chocolate beer. We are trying to get craft beer culture to Turkish community in London. And hope this will encourage other Turkish beers to come forward...

I've brewed I think like 12 times over the past couple years, always using recipes I find online, sometimes modifying them slightly. I wanted a strong oatmeal/ milk stout and couldn't find anything I liked, so I decided to take a crack at a custom recipe. Here it is: 14 lbs Two-Row 1.5 lbs...

I'm really struggling to decide on whether to add the Cholaca straight to the primary before packaging the beer or waiting to add it to the keg. My concern on adding it to the keg (16oz for 5 gal) is whether or not it'll create too much sludge at the bottom and if it'll become too strong...

I brewed my own recipe that started with Northern Brewers Dragon's Silk extract kit as the base recipe. (See recipe here: https://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/DragonsSilk.pdf) My intention was to add lactose, bourbon soaked vanilla beans cocoa nibs and medium toast oak cubes to...

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Hi everyone, I have a packet of windsor in my fridge and was wondering if anyone thinks this will wreck, ruin, or be fine in an oatmeal stout I am going to make today. I have not used windsor before so I am not to sure of its flavor attributes. Thanks for any input.

Looked but couldn't find exact situation that I need help with. I tried a Young's Double Chocolate Stout Clone AG recipe I found in BYO magazine. Followed the recipe (but doubled it to be a 10g) pretty much minus a few extra sugars my HBS said I didn't have to have and it started...

I have an old issue of BYO mag where they make an oyster stout with real oysters. Ever since I read this issue, I felt I must make an oyster stout. Has anybody ever made one before? Any tips or cautions?

Let me start by saying that this was a partial mash kit for an Irish Stout. It was a kit and came with the grains pre milled, (locally) and 7lbs of Dark LME. This is the third kit that I have used from my LHBS and the first two turned out ok. I only say Ok because the first was way too hoppy for...

5 Gallon Batch "South Shore Stout" FULL BOIL is BEST if you can make it - 3 Gallon boil will suffice grains: 1# Simpsons Roasted Barley 1# Chocolate Malt extracts: 6# Golden LME (May sub 'Light LME' - unsure on flavor change though) hops: 2 oz. Cluster pellets (60 min)...

So I was making a stout at 15 minutes before burn out I was to add 1/2 oz of kent goldings. I accidentally pitched in 1/2 oz of northern brewer. When I noticed my mistake I added the kent in too. The question is - What can I expect? Should I expect to need to dump this beer? I know this...

So I just brewed my first stout; a clone of Rasputin's Imperial Stout. I followed the instructions in BYO to a "T" and the SRM seems way off. Will it get darker? From what I've seen of my other beers they tend to get a little lighter as the haze clears. Did I screw something up? Thanks!

Brewed Northernbrewer's Imperial Stout on Monday night. Woke up this morning and went to take a look and unbelievably, the blow-off tube had... blown off. Fortunately, not a huge mess, just kind of a slow foamy volcano kind of thing coming out of the top and running down the sides. However, this...

Hey Guys, I hope to do my first beer as soon as my primary clears up. I really want to do an Irish Stout because I love Guinness but would rather stay all extract if possible because this is my first beer. I see that a lot of the recipes call for oats and other grains that need mashing, is...

What About Stout? is an article just published by Blast Magazine in Boston, MA. It compares Guinness to other stouts, visits the porter / stout naming debate, and tries to define terms such as ale and lager. There’s a comment board where you can agree or disagree.

I found and purchased this guinness faucet/tap thinking from the picture I could probly fit a beer nut on the end...no luck...I am going to check out threading of some bolts at the hardware store to see if any of them match...does anyone have a clue as to how I can use this. It is seamingly the...

Years ago when I was in Ireland, I enjoyed many a pint of Guinness with Black Currant added to it. I would like to experiment with currants in a stout recipe, but I can't find any online. The recipes I've seen are for fruit beers, or wheats or lighter ales. If I were to add black currant...

I have read a couple of times that Black Patent should be limited to 1/2# or less for a 5 gallon receipe. I am trying to brew a stout??? from leftover grains and have 12 oz of Black Patent left. Is this too much for a 5.5 gallon batch. I know these arent typical stout ingredients but again I am...

Long time reader first time poster. So I just finished brewing my 4th batch, an irish stout. The color is dark brown, far from black, and quite the opposite of what I was expecting a stout to look like. Should I expect the color to darken as it ferments/conditions? Is there anything I can do...