HB shop owner recommends boiling grains for a stout!!?!?

[Trough Lolly]

500g of choc malt in a stout? I think you've got a good robust porter recipe there, not a stout. Anyway, it should taste good as long as you don't boil any grain husks...

Cheers,
TL

[squirt in the turns]

Yep, the whole 500g packet went in... it was what the hb shop guy/Brewcraft puppet told me to do (although I did leave out the boiling part)

So I've made a porter... using a stout kit? Awesome I'm sure it'll be a nice drop regardless. Next time, I'll follow recipes from this forum instead of doing what some random weirdo tells me.

Now... just a couple more questions about this stout/porter hybrid:
1) Should I rack it?
2) What should I prime it with?

[drsmurto]

racking comes down to personal preference.

I do for all beers.

Priming - i prime lower than most but part of that is due to my love of english beers and a porter/stout fits this bill. (The other reason is i keg and the way i designed the system is that i cant prime above 2 volumes without damn near freezing the beer).

I would be priming at ~1.8 volumes and serving it at 10-12C. But thats personal preference (again).

Check out the Bulk Priming Calculator for help with this.