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Brew #7: Stoutarama
April 21, 2008, 11:27 am
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I finally got around to getting my next brew together yesterday. It’s a stout and it’s the usual 1gallon (8 UK pint) batch. The recipe is as follows:

Stoutarama (Makes 1 UK Gallon)

1lb Dark DME

4oz Crystal Malt (crushed)

4oz Roasted Barley (crushed)

0.25oz (10g ish metric?) Fuggles Hops (AA 5%)

The grains were steeped in the water as it came up to boil and then removed. The DME was added and the boil began. With 15 mins left I added the hops. Simple!

The brew is currently bubbling away nicely, using Safale S04 Ale yeast (really fast!)

Check back to find out how it turned out!

Cheers! 😉

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Homebrew stout can be very nice (have made Muntons before) and makes a welcome change from Guinness, Murphys etc. Some real ale brewers make their own stout though it is difficult to find on tap in the pub. Some supermarkets do a real ale stout in a bottle eg Sainsburys sell Titanic stout which is very tasty.
Why do you only brew eight pints? In my house on a Saturday night with my son and his student friends here this amount would last probaly eight minutes. I have to brew in five gallon batches just to keep my head above beer!

Comment by Dewi Jones April 27, 2008 @ 11:09 am
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Hi Dewi. I agree with you about the scarcity of real ale stout on tap in pubs. Whenever I see some, I always have a pint (or three!) as you never know when you’ll see it again…

I only brew 1 gallon (8 UK pint) batches mainly due to space limitations. I live in a 1 bedroom city centre flat with my girlfriend, so there is simply no space for a 5 gallon carboy/brew bucket. Having said all that, I do believe I may have persuaded the missus to let me upgrade to a 2 gallon fermenter so that’ll double my output.

Comment by Graham Dinsdale April 28, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
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This beer is almost two months old – have you tried it yet? I’m going to start some Geordie Lager today but instead of the bog standard 40 pints I’ll make 35 pints to turn it into a premium brew. Recenty went to Bruges in Belgium. There’s a good place to sample beer!
Best wises for the two gallon outfit.

Comment by Dewi Jones June 15, 2008 @ 11:42 am
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Hi Dewi, Very perceptive of you. Stoutarama was tried, declared good, and the entire batch finished by a few of us about 2 weeks ago. It was excellent, even though I do say so myself!

I’ve got a new fermentor now (glass demi-john type), so i’m just planning my next batch.

How is the Geordie Lager going? That sounds like a good way to use kit ingredients, less water for a slightly stronger beer. Good thinking!

I’m told that Belgium is the place to go to sample a huge range of beer styles. I’m jealous…

Comment by Graham Dinsdale June 16, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
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The lager (bottled 21/6/08) is OKish but nowhere near as good as Geordie’s Bitter & Yorkshire Bitter. Still, I can’t complain as I am keeping the bitter for myself and pouring the lager down the throats of my son and his student friends.

Comment by Dewi Jones July 9, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
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