Brewing Method: All Grain
Yeast: Safale or other neutral yeast
Yeast Starter: rehydrated 2 packets
Batch Size: 27L for 25L batch
Original Gravity: 1052
Final Gravity: 1015
Alcohol Content: 5 %
Total Grains: 5.63K
Color:
Extract Efficiency: 75 %
Hop IBU's: 30
Boiling Time: 70 min
Primary Fermentation: 7
Secondary Fermentation: 28
Additional Fermentation: bottle condition
Grain Bill:
Pale 2row malt 4.18K
Cararoma malt .225 or crystal malt
Carafa I malt .4K or chocolate malt
Roast barley .325K
Rolled oats .5
Muscavado sugar (in kettle) .5
Hop Bill:
17g EKG 6% AA for 60 mins
21g Fuggles 5%AA for 60 minutes
no late additions
last 10 mins of boil add a melted 200g good dark bitter chocolate bar stir well not to scorch
Mash Schedule:
2L water per K grain
Mash at 68C for 50 mins
Mash out, sparge
Brewers Notes:
Any stout of OG 1050, IBU 25-35 will do. I added oats to get a creamier stout
When bottling, add a small bottle of chocolate essence.
Tasted pretty good to me today when I bottled it. I put this together after seeing a picture of Youngs double chocolate stout