Stout

[Mashman]

I recently made a user upper stout which actually turned out very nice. I would like to brew again but am looking for a bit more of a burnt, roasty edge to it.

Grains were

3.8kg Pale
0.5kg flaked barley
0.45kg Roast Barley
0.1lg Chocolate Malt

Any suggestions for additions to give me what I am looking for ?

TIA

M

[Rookie]

You can up the roast barley and/or add some black patent malt.

[Eric]

Yes, more roasted barley and/or further roast some of roast barley. If you can get some unmated barley it is possible to roast it to the level you require.

[john luc]

Brown malt, you will thank me later

[drjim]

I use 4Kg pale, 500 each of flaked oats and roast barley. Single hop addition Northern brewer 50g for 60 mins. If I want a bit more ABV bang a bit of sugar in, but that comes out nicely roasty tasting.

[An Ankoù]

I agree with Jean Luc that a bit if brown will make the beer more mellow. You might also try substituting 500g of your pale malt with rauchmalz. I'm not sure that the contribution of the chocolate malt would be discernible in all this. Sub it with black malt or carafa special #3 or even chocolate wheat malt.

[Mashman]

Thanks for all the input guys, much appreciated, will up the roast barley and look into the brown malt for next time.

Cheers

M

[barneey]

am looking for a bit more of a burnt, roasty edge to it.

I would go along with Eric, roast your own unmalted barley.

It will give you another dimension to the beer, a little goes along way, some say it adds too much astringency to a beer, I would argue it adds another layer, all depends what you are after.

If you want to be in the wife's good books the kitchen even isnt probably the best place to roast