AG#44 - Liquorice & Treacle Stout (Sundays brew)

[Franklin]

Liquorice & Treacle Stout - I've been thinking about both liquorice and treacle in a stout for a while. This is going to be V.1 (proceed with caution) and next weekend I will do a V.2 (less cautious) with a lot more Treacle in it, somewhere between 2-5% of the malt bill.

Fermentables:
Pale Malt - 1990g - 70.3%
Flaked Barley - 280g - 10%
Caramalt - 280g - 10%
Roasted Barley - 125g - 4.5%
Chocolate Malt - 125g - 4.5%
Sugar, Black Treacle - 21g - 0.7%

Hops:
Centennial @ 60 mins - 17g
Centennial @ 5 mins - 9g

Copper Additions:
Liquorice Powder @ 5mins - 10.4g
Protafloc Tablet @ 15-20mins - Half a Tablet

Final Volume: 12 Litres
Original Gravity: 1.055
Final Gravity: 1.016
Alcohol Content: 5% ABV
Total Liquor: 19 Litres
Mash Liquor: 7 Litres
Mash Efficiency: 80 %
Bitterness: 37 EBU
Colour: 235 EBC

Water treatment to the Stout Profile in the GW Calc, added to the Malts and blended / Mashing in.
Mash for 90mins and Boil for 60mins.
Yeast probably just Safale S-04.

The malts, pale malt; caramalt; roasted barley; chocolate malt; flaked barley:

Mini Mash Tun in use for the first time in ages, it just manages this brew length:

Treacle weighed out:

Liquorice Powder weighed out:

First batch sparge:

In go the Bittering hops, Centennial:

its 1054/55, so near as damn it on the money:

I cooled a bit far, oops, popped it by the radiator in the Kitchen to warm up:


Kind of a drawn out brewday as I was finishing off the 50L brewery I was making.

 

[broadfordbrewer]

:thumb: looking and sounding great! Liquorice and treacle have to be a good combination. Let us know how v2 turns out.