Ok, I haven’t stopped with the BrewDog recipes just yet… But it’s definitely a stout time of year and this one is well-liked by my wonderful wife!
Brewday details:
- Length: 20 litres
- OG: 1.056
- FG:
- ABV:
BeerXml File: Jet Black Heart
Jet Black Heart
- Style: Sweet Stout
- Length: 20 litres
- Yeast: Safale American (DCL/Fermentis US-05)
- OG: 1.056
- FG: 1.015
- ABV: 5.4 %
- Colour: 77.6 EBC
- Bitterness: 42.6 IBUs
Fermentables:| Name | Colour | Amount (kg) | % |
|---|
| Pale Ale (Crisp) | 6 | 2.499 | 53 |
| Brown Malt | 150 | 0.399 | 8 |
| Oats, Flaked | 2 | 0.379 | 8 |
| Milk Sugar (Lactose) | 0 | 0.379 | 8 |
| Crystal Extra Dark - 120L (Crisp) | 236 | 0.249 | 5 |
| Wheat Malt, Pale (Weyermann) | 4 | 0.249 | 5 |
| Black Malt (Thomas Fawcett) | 1300 | 0.199 | 4 |
| Carafa I | 664 | 0.199 | 4 |
| Crystal Dark - 77L (Crisp) | 148 | 0.199 | 4 |
| Total | 4.759 | |
Hops:| Name | Alpha | Form | Amount (g) | Time (mins) |
|---|
| Magnum | 14 | Leaf | 15 | 60 |
| Sorachi Ace | 12 | Leaf | 15 | 30 |
Comments:
Hardness 205ppm, water treatment in 30 litres liquor of 20ml CRS, 8.8g calcium chloride, 4g salt, using the “stout” profile on Jim’s Water Treatment Calculator.
Pre-prepared for today’ brew: water measured out and on a time-clock to start heating at 9am, and all the grains measured out (and the oats toasted) ready to go.
The recipe is slightly higher in OG than the DIY Dog recipe, as I rounded the 190g and 380g quantities to 200g and 400g as my hanging scales only has graduations in 50g increments. The oats and lactose remain at their original 380g, mind you.
Not sure why, but the default for the lactose in BeerSmith had it marked as a fermentable, which raised the OG by quite a bit, despite the description for the checkbox being “This ingredient is not fermentable (i.e. lactose)”. So I checked said checkbox and got the OG that the recipe was calling for.
During the first sparge I screwed up (again) by leaving the tap on the copper open. It could be worse; I think I only (!) lost 3 litres of precious wort. When the second sparge has finished I’ll know for sure and have to add some liquor and probably a bit of DME.
We’re ok after all – the OG ended up being 1.054 at 18 litres, so I’m just going to leave it along and neither add liquor nor DME.
