Date: 18 Sep 2006 02:30:04
From: Steve/Aus
Subject: My Guinness experiment
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Amongst the stuff I picked up at the auction are three adjustable stout
taps.
I tried one and it works brilliantly on a porter I have kegged.
So, the next obvious step is to make a Guinness Draught style of beer.
For the recipe, I used pils malt as a base as it's all I had plus roasted
barley and chocolate malt and 500g of cooked flaked barley, added for the
protein content and it's positive effect on head retention. To keep it on
the dry side, 1-Kg of the fermentables was plain white table sugar. Guinness
also has a clean finish so I am fermenting it on a lager yeast at lager
temps.
Hopefully, with sugar and lager yeast I should get a clean dry finish.
Now when I keg, I will lightly force carbonate - Guinness is not very
carbonated, and push it at high pressure through the adjustable restrictor
to get the fine foam and cascading bubbles. I'm not splashing out on a
nitrogen set-up, When I'm done serving I'll de-gas the keg to stop excessive
carbonation.
This is probably not what most brewers would do to make this style, but it
all makes sense to me :-)
Steve W (in Aus)
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