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My stout attempt is either a sweet stout or american stout IMO.
Here it is.

1.5 kg LLME (50.85%)
0.5 kg DDME (16.95%)
0.4 kg Crystal med (13.56%)
0.3 kg Roast Barley (10.17%)
0.25 kg Amber malt (8.47%)

15 g Tett @ 60 min (4.6% AA)
15 g Perle @ 40 min (7.6% AA)
15 g Perle @ 10 min
15 g Amarillo @ 10 min (8.6% AA)
IBU 39.1
SRM 33.8
OG 1052
Make 16 ltr
US-05 yeast

How much should I prime a stout? How long should I condition for? It will be racked after fermentation over. Is it worth trying to clear a stout? (gelatine)
Cheers

Hey mate i recently made a stout dunno if u bulk prime or not.
i just did my normal 2 coopers drops for my 650ml glass bottles. Carbonation was nice and nice creamy head.
2 coopers drops is 7gm of cane sugar


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I left in bottle for 3 weeks before drinking, 4 weeks and its starting to taste better and better.
due to heavy malt flavor its a good ageing beer

Gday.
Normally prime 1 tsp castor sugar for 750 ml bottles. Have thought about bulk priming but haven't done it yet.
Cheers

Hey mate i found a good bulk priming thingo....

http://webspace.webring.com/people/ms/s ... lator.html

U can searchs sweet stout there in style

Select what u need, temp is what u brewed at, this time of year its a out 20 for me
Dextrose is what i would use personally if i had the gear to do it

2 coopers drops roughly calculated is 2.5 volumes of co2 from my brew

O.K. brewed this tonight

This is a partial recipe. mash 2.5 ltr 60 min @ 66c. Volauf 3 times. Sparge 10 ltr 75-80c, (modified sparge, volauf with sparge water twice, soaked in sparge water 10 mins, volauf again twice.) Boil volume 11 ltr, followed recipe above for hops.

OG 1048, 50% efficiency which is great for me.

Highlight - this week I split a US-05 yeastcake into two 750ml stubbies, then capped. Got one out today for a starter, took cap off, tipped out top liquid and primed with 50g DLME, put cap on and shook like buggery. Shaking like buggery proceeded for at least 3 hrs, sitting on top of heater inbetween shakes. Went to un-cap to pitch starter, BOoOM!!! starter everywhere in kitchen, and I mean EVERYWHERE. Lucky to still have eye. Another stroke of luck is wife and kids stayed asleep so I live to brew another day (now I have cleaned up).

Lesson learned - DON'T make and shake a starter without an airlock (what an Idiot)

P.S. still pitched what was left of starter and will check tomorrow in case other half of trub needed.
Cheers

Had the same thing happen in the door of the fridge

Good thing I was home on my own to clean up before the boss spied the mess....

How did the ferment go Rotten?

Well, I have got a 3 inch high Krausen, don't have any bubbling through airlock happening yet though. I have read enough posts to realise not to worry as that's not a true sign of fermentation. I did remove lid yesterday in readiness to pitch rest of yeastcake and decided against it, yeast looked healthy enough for me. Does a stout normally ferment slow?
Cheers

This time of year it can because of lower night time temps and ur using an ale yeast.
what temps are u fermenting at?

20c -22c should be 6 - 7 days

Also i found with my stout ths FG was higher than my ales and lager, i could only put that down to unfermentables in a very dark beer

I bottled mine as it got stuck at FG of 1018

i used US-05 yeastcake, pitched 20ish c , ferment around 16-18c. Once i saw krausen i didn't touch it. I scored a brewcraft heater plate off a mate and put brew on that for a day to finish things off after 7-8 days. Racked to secondary and put in fridge after 2 days to add finings before bottling. FG at bottling 1008.
I did taste it out of fermenter at bottling, it's sweet, dark, and will need time to mature. Very tasty though.
Cheers

I'm bottling my first Stout today.
Went from OG 1.051 to 1.014.
The hydro sample yesterday tasted oh so nice.

G'day all.
I cracked the first bottle of my stout today over dinner. It was a perfect beverage for turkey chorito sausages with ricotta-spinach tortellini, and mash spuds to top it off. Felt like an Irishman.

Bloody Beautiful doesn't seem to do it justice. I thought it may be sweet when I bottled (fg reading good for something besides numbers) but it has balanced beyond my expectations. Will only improve with age.

Cheers