Stout (All Grain)

RIS Marital Bliss

Description: I’m planning on brewing a Russian Imperial Stout for my wedding. The charteristics I’m looking for is a dark, full bodied, somewhat sweet, with light bittering (for an imperial stout), and a hint of esters and complexity. I’ll be brewing this thing as a partial mash and figure on doing a single step infusion mash at around 155 degrees …

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Terminator Stout

Description: Black as the darkest night, rich as the most decadent dessert, Terminator is for the true stout lover. This is a full bodied and flavor packed ale which draws it’s robust complexity from kiln-baked specialty grains. Look for a wide array of toasted, chocolate, nutty and coffee-like flavors in every pint! This recipe was made famous by the McMenamins …

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Bees and Bears RIS

Description: I’m trying for a complex RIS and feel that with this recipe that I’m likely to achieve that. I’d just like some input on this recipe. Ingredients: 4# English Pale Ale malt .5# carapils malt 6 oz English Roasted Barley 6 oz English Black Roast 4 oz Flaked Barley 4 oz Flaked Wheat (considering using spelt) 4 oz English …

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Perfect Guiness

Beer Style: stout, dry stout, Irish stout Recipe Type: all-grain Description: There is probably no such thing as a perfect clone, but I’ll share with you (and anyone else watching) some of the things I have been able to learn in my similar attempts. None of this is authenticated by any factual source that I know of. I do not …

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Mackeson’s Stout Clone

Beer Style: stout, English stout, milk stout, sweet stout, Mackeson’s Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipe is based on one presented by Bob Pritchard in his book All About Beer. He also advocates adding saccharine. In digest #245, Doug Roberts said that he made this beer and did not like the results. He said, “I will never again make a …

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Imperial Stout

Beer Style: stout, Russian imperial stout Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I have been brewing Imperial Stouts all summer—10 batches altogether. (Talk about a beer out of season—rawlp!) Many interesting Imperial Stouts were produced. The one I liked the most had all the trappings of an Imperial Stout but without that expected alcoholic flavor. A Big Beer without the Burn. The …

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Kahlua Stout

Beer Style: stout, kahlua Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Ingredients: 5 pounds, 2-row barley 2 pounds, 120L caramel malt 2 pounds, 20L caramel malt 2 pounds, British crystal 1 pound, wheat malt 1 pound, dextrin 1 pound, roast barley 2 ounces, Northern Brewer hops (boil 75 minutes) 1/2 ounce, Styrian Golding hops (boil 75 minutes) 1 bottle Kahlua liquor extract Whitbread …

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Dry Rye Stout

Beer Style: stout, dry stout, rye Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This has got to be the best stout I have ever made. Since I have made the move to all-grain, this will be the only stout recipe for me. The flavour is dry and what you would expect from a stout. The rye and the cara-pils has made it very …

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Coopers Stout Clone

Beer Style: stout, foreign stout, Coopers Stout clone Recipe Type: all-grain Description: It is basically a foreign style stout: quite bitter (maybe 45 IBU), alcoholic (6.8%), coffeeish and oily. I believe Coopers use dextrose in all their beers, including this one. My Roger Protz (a Pom) book says they use lager malt, crystal and roast barley. I would have guessed …

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Amy’s Stout

Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout Recipe Type: all-grain Description: My wife really liked Sam Adams Cream Stout when we had some last summer. I thought I’d try to make a beer with that nice creamy, roasty flavor, but lower gravity, for her graduation party last weekend. Tasting notes (after 1 week in bottle/keg): Yum! Initial roasty-malty aroma with a hint …

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