| Imperial Stout | Beer recipe |
Description
Extremely dark in color with malty, chocolate, deeply roasted with accents of dark fruit (raisin and fig) aromas and flavors. The bitterness of this beer is low to moderate.
Service:
Glass: Pint Glass Temperature: 4-8 °C
BREWER`S TIPS
To add more roasted notes to the beer, you can add up to 8% of roasted barley.
This recipe is provided by Castle Malting®. Please note that this recipe is just a guideline. Some modification might need to be done to meet different technologies, efficiencies and ingredients yield as grain dry extract and hop alpha acid percentage.
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RECIPE FOR 100L
MALT
HOPS
YEAST
SUGAR
Mashing temperature
Step 1: Mashing
Mash-in and follow the profile below:
Mash-in at 62°C
Rest for 45min at 62°C Rise to 72°C at 1°C/min Rest for 20min at 72°C and do the Iodine Test Rise to 78°C at 1°C/min Rest for 2min at 78°C to mash out Once the mash is done, filter and sparge with water at 78°C
Step 2: Boiling
Boil for 60min. Hop addition 1: After 10min add 190g East Kent Golding. Hop Addition 2: After 50min add 100g East Kent Golding. Sugar addition: After 50min add Brown Sugar. Whirlpool to remove the trub
Step 3: Fermentation and Maturation
Cool down the wort to 16°C and pitch the yeast. Ferment at 16°C for 2 days then rise to 18°C. Once the fermentation is done (FG reached and off-flavors removed – about 7 days), drop the temperature to 8°C and rest for 1 day, and then harvest the yeast. Drop the temperature to 2°C and rest for 7 days.
Step 4: Cold Aging and Packaging
Cold age the beer at -1°C for 5 days, remove the residual yeast, and carbonate until 2.4 volumes of CO2. The beer is ready to package and drink. Enjoy!
*For refermentation in the bottle, add brewing sugar and SafAle F-2.
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