Stout I hope of some description

[Gerryjo]

Recipe as titled.
Grain bill
4.2lb Minch Pale Malt
2.2 Minch Wheat Malt
2.2lb flaked barley
1lb roasted barley

Hops schedule
27g bullion hops preboil
10g Amarillo hops @30 mins
10g Amarillo hops @10 mins
10g Amarillo hops @5 mins
20g Amarillo hops @0 mins

Yeast
Fermentis S04

Dry hop 25 Ella in secondary @ day 7 for 7

No idea and by the time you read this it will be ready to pitch yeast but open to suggestions.

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[Grizzly299]

That looks pretty good to me. Might be a little hoppy for a traditional stout, given the late additions and dry hopping. I guess it's more of an American Style Stout.

 

[Gerryjo]

Hop additions were meant to be 50g of Golding's at 60 and I kept having HB after HB and got carried away.Still chilling in FV so have to wait prior to pitching yeast.I shouldn't drink HB when I make it.

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[Gerryjo]

Chilled and yeast pitched but rookie mistake and forgot to check OG and shall maybe skip the dry hopping to see how this turns out first.

 

[Budgie]

Chilled and yeast pitched but rookie mistake and forgot to check OG and shall maybe skip the dry hopping to see how this turns out first.

I've made that mistake a few times myself. I had a dry hopped stout a few weeks back, can't for the life of me recall what it was though. It was very good though, I'd go for it.

 

[Gerryjo]

To be honest I've never tried a hoppy stout,so what I may do is split it into 2 fermenters and dry hop one with Ella hop and leave the second on its own to sample the difference in taste provided they turn out OK.🍺

 

[Gerryjo]

Just dry hopped with 50g of First gold and 50g of Amarillo in one fermenter and no hops in the other.

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[Brew_DD2]

Sounds lovely. Hoppy stouts can be really interesting.

 

[Gerryjo]

Never tried a real hoppy stout before so it should be interesting to say the least.I opened the fermenter last night and the roasted aroma alone made my mouth water 🍺

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[Gerryjo]

Have tried a few of these now I and the both stouts are great regarding colour,mouth feel,head retention and flavour except that there is a slight solvent taste in the background which I quite like and even the missus likes it.
I know that it has fermented at too high a temperature as I was not controlling it as it was in the garage wrapped up beside the radiator but the heating was on for quite a bit.Shall definitely brew this again and make this my house stout.