I've made this about 4 times now. I recently made it 3 times in a row - I like stout!
Heads up: For the first 3-4 weeks of conditioning it's VERY roasty. Then the flavours start to mellow out and belnd together. This is an awesome stout imo
(will change the thread tite to Stout )
I haven't got the book (that will be remedied in a few weeks!), what's the recipe?
I'm beginning to think that me and O4 Yeast don't get on very well. I took another sample this morning and the hydrometer is still sitting at 1.016, which gives me a rather un-stoutish 3.3% I think my first Stout with dried 04 stopped at a pathetic 1.020, or so.
Temperature of wort was 18.7, so in the sweat spot for fermentation, but I'm not sure it's going to go down any further. I gave it another gentle swirl and I'll bottle on Tuesday. At least the sample tasted good.
I use US05 in stouts. So does Greg Hughes, I think? It's closer to Irish ale yeast than S04. Clean, and attenuates well.
Mash temp was good. Started at 68 and fell to 66.5 over the hour. However conversion was not brilliant (1.038 instead of expected 1.042) I put this down to using dark grains in the Mash?Ah. WLP004 is Irish Ale yeast, which is ideal. And different from S04. S04 is the dried version of WLP007!
So it's not the yeast that's the problem. Mash temperature, aeration, fermentation temperature?
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