Best stout yet!

[dr_rob]

Finally got round to uploading some photos of my best stout yet.

Batch size: 23L

Grain bill:
5kg Pale malt
1.2kg Brown malt
1kg flaked oats
300g Chocolate malt
200g black patent malt

Mashed for 90mins at 61C (first time using new kit, was aiming for 65C!)

Boil:
65g WGV 60mins
35g WGV 10mins

Split off 1 gallon, which I added two split, dried chillies to on day 7.

Fermented with Mauribrew Ale514.

Really smooth, with some residual sweetness and really nice chocolate notes in it. The chilli one was even better with a bit of a slow burn toward the end.
Chillis hiding in the bottom!

 

[dr_rob]

Forgot to mention:

OG 1060 (need to work on efficiency i think!)
FG1018

 

[boab42stout]

looking good there why did you pot chillie in a stout :hmm:

 

[boab42stout]

Ah now i see you put the chillie stout in dhemi jhon hope it works out

 

[boab42stout]

Is that a spinning sparggge arm how are they? hows the rotation and flow rate?

 

[dr_rob]

Yup, that's the two chillies in the demi john after racking, they went in on day 7 of the primary fermentation.

The sparge arm works OK, but needs a flow rate higher than I like to keep it going. My efficiency really drops if I sparge to quick.