Guinness

[Sniper]

Has anyone got a clone recipe for Guinness ?

[richard_senior]

Just use the search facility and you'll find loads.

[Garth]

This apparently is the recipe Guinness use

70% pale malt
20% flaked barley
10% roasted barley

45IBUs Bullion - 60min

Ferment at 62F.

[Madbrewer]

I couldn't get any bullion so I used Northern Brewer only for hops.
I could tell it wasn't 'Guiness' but it really wasn't bad and got the thumbs up from a Guiness fan I know.

[stevezx7r]

I'm looking at making something similar today, using Target hops as bullion are out at the H+G.

Not really a guinness but should be in the same area anyway.

I doubt you could make it without messing around with the water supply and/or burning your grain before use.

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Might try this, what amount of Target would you recommend?


BB

[maltman]

With dry stouts most are highly bittered so if you target your IBU to OG ratio between 0.9 to 1.1 then i don't think you will be far wrong, with the hop addition coming at 60mins.

BTW in last months BYO recipe section it was suggested that by milling/blitzing your roast barley almost to dust is a "critical step" in getting the correct colour and flavour! Tried it none the less but still waiting for it to finish in primary to taste the results.

Article also suggests possibly performing a 49c rest prior to saccharification to help with the runoff as unmalted flaked barley can become gummy in the mash. i didnt, just did a single infusion at 65c, and had no run off problems.

[stevezx7r]

Might try this, what amount of Target would you recommend?


BB

Didn't make it in the end. Decided to make a bitter but still used the Target. It's in the brew day section if your interested - Krackasaki.

[Chris B]

I did a cornie of the 70-20-10 recipe earlier this year for a vintage bike do at a freinds place in the village, it went down well with the guinness drinkers. I used Northdown in mine.

[Edwin Thrunge]

A recipe that I had here, which worked out at the same 70-20-10 recommended Target, not Bullion. I used to have the benefit of going to the maltsters who produced the flake barley for Guinness when they brewed in Park Royal, and had a small bag from them (about 20Kg). I used to get my pale malt from Moray Firth Maltings (who produced it for Guinness), the only thing I still had to buy from the local shop was the roasted barley, the hops, and the yeast.

The brews that I made came out very close to the flavour of bottled guinness. I even managed a pretty good clone of Guinness Export (the 7.2% bottled variety) which used to sell in the Co-Op next door.

Rob.