Rye and Date Stout

[DMBrewing]

Hi All, this is my first post on the HomeBrewTalk forums and also my first time home brewing. A friend of mine has been all grain brewing for about 6 months now with great success so it's a good time to get involved. Thought I might as well throw myself in at the deep end and wanted to brew something which had its roots in a "Kvass" which I drank in Russia (non alcoholic beer) brewed with Rye bread and dates. After reading through loads of people's recipes on here I stumped up the courage to write my own. Excuse me if there are any gaps but some of the terminology is new to me:

For 5 gallons at 75% efficiency

OG: anticipated 1.062 (actually got 1.058)
FG: anticipated 1.017 (actually got 1.018)
IBU: 32.55
SRM: 38.03
Anticipated ABV: 5.87% (actual 5.6%)

3.4 kg Maris Otter Pale
0.8 kg CaraBelge
0.5 kg Crystal Rye
0.5 kg Chocolate (High Colour)
0.5 kg Flaked Rye
40 g Pearl @ 60 min IBU 20.02
25 g Bramling Cross @ 25 min IBU 9.54
15 g Bramling Cross @ 10 min IBU 2.99
175g Dates (@ 20 min boil)
175g Dates (secondary)

White Labs - Edinburgh Scottish Ale Yeast WLP028

Bottles primed with Dextrose

I should have really posted it up on here for a critique before we brewed but I got a bit caught up in the recipe writing until the minute before we started weighing stuff out. A little late now but I wondered what people thought of the recipe?

We have just bottled today and the beer is an amazing dark red colour, tastes good already so hopefully it's even better after a couple of weeks in the bottle.

How long should we be leaving a beer like this to condition for?

Thanks

 

[DMBrewing]

This is after 2 weeks in the bottle, It wasn't quite conditioned enough, it needed a bit more time to mellow. Just had another one after an extra week and it's starting to taste really good - malty, spicy and with notes of red berries. The dates come through on the nose but not on the taste which is a bit of a shame, more dates next time.

I'll write some proper tasting notes in a couple of weeks when hopefully it'll be even better.