Linc’s Foreign Extra Stout

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Linc’s Foreign Extra Stout By Linc Well, it won the inaugural Rat
1kg English style pale malt 500g ~40-50L crystal malt 250g black malt 250g roast barley 2kg dark LME (Coopers) 1kg black LME (Morgans) 1kg chocolate LME (Morgans) 60g Pride or Ringwood (10%AA) start of boil 30g Fuggles at flame out White Labs Irish Ale Yeast WLP004

Apologies for the scant detail and roughness of these instructions, it was a very early brew for me and a lot of the success of this beer is down to a good ingredient list and a lot of luck.

*I added 1 teaspoon of gypsum to the mash water, mashed all grains for about 1.25 hours at 66C.

*Boil 1.5 hours, started with about 15 litres and ended with about 10.

*Chilled to 24C.

*Made up to 16 litres with filtered water.

*Pitched WLP004 and aerated well (would recommend a starter).

*Ferment at ~18C 2 weeks, secondary 2 weeks, bottle with 120g DME

OG: High (1.095+)

FG: 1.022