Foreign Extra Stout - Admiral Black Swaen

[Alan_Reginato]

Recipe Type
All Grain BIAB

Yeast
Nottingham, 11g package.

Yeast Starter
No

Total brew water
30 L (7,9 us gal)
No sparge

Pre-boil
24 L (6,3 us gal)

Post-boil
21 L (5,5 us gal)

Batch Size (fermenter)
20 L (5,2 us gal)

Original Gravity
1.069

Final Gravity
1.014

ABV
8%

Boiling Time (Minutes)
60

IBU
73

Color
32 SRM

Brewhouse efficiency: 69%

Primary Fermentation
20 days, 12 to 15 C (53 to 59 F)
Water bath.

Tasting Notes
Coffee, bitter, balanced.

Ingredients:

5.25 kg (12 lb) Pilsner malt (84%)

0.5 kg (1,1 lb) The Swaen - BlackSwaen Coffee Malt B (Barley) 225L (8%)

0.5 kg (1,1 lb) The Swaen - Blackswaen Coffee Light W (Wheat) 150L (8)

Hops: Admiral (UK) 14% AA

Water:

Alkalinity (6) and hardness (15) are pretty low here. So be free to adjust it.

Mash Schedule:

Start at 40 C (104 F), rise to 66 C (151 F) keep it for 120 min and mash out at 80 C (176F).

Hops Schedule:

@60min: 30g Admiral (14% AA)
@15min: 20g Admiral (14% AA)

Chill to 20 C (68F)

Carbonation: 3.5 co2 vol. 10g/L priming.
Carb lower, if you don't like the bite.

Open the first bottle after 3 months. Tastes like coffee, with a strong, but pleasant, hop bitterness.
Ended up with 8% ABV, nearly 8,5%, if including priming sugar, but you couldn't tell it just by the taste.

A combination of neutral yeast, clean bittering hops and huskless roasted grain, that certain will be brewd again.



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[An Ankoù]

That looks a lovely beer. I've never seen Swaen malts in the UK and I guess they'd be quite hard to substitute, especially the coffee wheat. Unfortunately Braumarkt have stopped delivering to the UK. Fortunately, I'm on the continent so I'm going to see what I can find.