Thanks for the comments, I've got to admit I'm very pleased. I only tried it with the nitro spout, but I will try it with the normal spout later and let you know if there's a difference. Good luck with the Guinness clone, it's a great brew to make, I love stouts.
As to the gas, it was gassed and poured with the same gas, that's a 70% nitrogen 30% Co2. As mentioned in a previous post, I tried the force carbonation method with this gas, not sure I needed to do that, but the steps I did are like so:
- Once fermentation was complete, I racked the stout into a bottling bucket, this included a tap and I used a hop spider to filter the beer a little whilst transferring by siphon.
- I allowed the brew to settle again for a couple of days then transferred to the kegs, approx 18 litres into the big keg and 5 litres into the small keg, I purged the kegs with beer gas before I filled the kegs with the stout from the tap on the filling bucket.
- Once filled I popped the kegs in the fridge for a day to cool.
- I then connected the gas to the kegs, pressurised to 30psi and rolled them around and gave them a cuddle for about 10 minutes each (thats the force carbonation, again, not sure I needed to do that)
- Left the kegs in the fridge for about a week, then connected the gas to the small keg for 3 days at 30psi pressure.
- To pour, I reduced the pressure to 4psi, that was a little low so I upped the pressure to 10psi to pour, that resulted in the glass of stout in the picture I previously posted.
So it worked perfectly, the drink was nice and smooth, a great head that lasted to the end of the glass, if I can find a way to link the videos I'll put some on, I took a few to try and show the cascading bubbles as they rose and created the head, like I said, it didn't look like a can of draught Guinness just poured, but that didn't matter as the end result was spot on. Here's a pic of pint 5 (I went through 7 last night)
Cheers.
