Bitter stout

[Dazzer]

Hello
This is the recipe, Wheelers Muprphy stout
12.5litres

0.9kg dark dme
200g roast barley
40g chocolate malt
225g sugar

northdown hops 14grams, harvest alpha 6.0%
yeast saf 04 11g

og: 1039
fg:1010

Ferment for 8 days, primed wih 50g of sugar. Bottled so far 2weeks 4days

I could not wait so i tried a bottle tonight and i was a little bit disapointed with the taste, to me it tasted very bitter i know i have'nt left it for 4 weeks in the bottle will this change or have i done something wrong with the recipe

[Dazzer]

Are you sure you used 0.9 kg of dme, that's very low, I reckon you need closer to 1.8kg for 23L and as you are adding dark malts it probably would have been better to go with pale dme. The hops appear to only come out at 9 ibus in 23L also.

Sorry, batch size was 12.5 litres, i halfed the ingredients from the original recipe.

[Dazzer]

i thought dark dme just added more colour Maybe i got the wrong end of the stick