I was going for a stout. What do you think?

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This is my 3rd home brew and I wanted to try an experiment. At the moment I am doing 1 gallon brew-in-a-bag batches (I live in an apartment, and one day I will make larger batches, so I will stop you there).

So what do you think of the following recipe:

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: WL029
Boiling Time (Minutes): 60

2.2 # - Pale 2 Row
4 oz - Chocolate Malt
4 oz - Crystal 120 L
4 oz - Roasted Barley

0.2 oz - Tettnanger @ 60 min.
0.2 oz - Tettnanger @ 30 min.
0.4 oz - Cascade @ 15 min.

The hops and yeast were sort of left overs from a Kolsch and an APA i did, so that is how they were chosen.

I am interested in what kind of stout you think this would best fall under. Also, what do you think about this recipe? Any comments (positive or negative) would be most appreciated since I am still learning.

Thanks

 

[kgg_033]

I do 5 gallon batches, and quick math says you have too much roasted Barley (in my humble opinion). Rules are meant to be broken, and while not a rule at all alot of stout fans will tell you 0.5 lb to 1.0 lb for 5 gallons....even those who love the roasted barley flavor would consider 1lb the top end (3oz for 1 gallon). Your recipe is equivelent to 1.25 for 5 gallons. In and of itself, not all bad, but tack on the same equivelent of Chocolate and likewise 120L crystal, seems a bit too much dark roast to me.
If it were me, and the beauty of homebrewing is doing your own thing.....but if it were me, I might do no more than 6oz of Roasted Barley and Chocolate COMBINED, and cut your Crystal 120L in half. Then make up what you took out by adding additional base malt. If using leftovers is the goal (I am the same way!), perhaps cut your specialty grains in half, pick up more base malt and some more hops, and brew TWO 1 gallon batches. Even better, brew them slightly different (use 3 oz roasted barley and 1 oz chocolate in one, and visa-versa in the other), and treat it also as an experiment in flavor components.
Either way, i am interested to know what you do, and how it (or they) turn out!

 

[Mysticmead]

I do 5 gallon batches, and quick math says you have too much roasted Barley (in my humble opinion). Rules are meant to be broken, and while not a rule at all alot of stout fans will tell you 0.5 lb to 1.0 lb for 5 gallons....even those who love the roasted barley flavor would consider 1lb the top end (3oz for 1 gallon). Your recipe is equivelent to 1.25 for 5 gallons. In and of itself, not all bad, but tack on the same equivelent of Chocolate and likewise 120L crystal, seems a bit too much dark roast to me.
If it were me, and the beauty of homebrewing is doing your own thing.....but if it were me, I might do no more than 6oz of Roasted Barley and Chocolate COMBINED, and cut your Crystal 120L in half. Then make up what you took out by adding additional base malt. If using leftovers is the goal (I am the same way!), perhaps cut your specialty grains in half, pick up more base malt and some more hops, and brew TWO 1 gallon batches. Even better, brew them slightly different (use 3 oz roasted barley and 1 oz chocolate in one, and visa-versa in the other), and treat it also as an experiment in flavor components.
Either way, i am interested to know what you do, and how it (or they) turn out!

+1... that's a LOT of roasted barely