It just was St Patrick’s Day! Here is my very condensed history of the Irish Stout.
St Patricks day is one of the best “beer” holidays there is. What beer do we all think of as the St Pats staple? Guinness.
Irish Stout
Tag: Porter
The Ukraine Brew
Alot of you probably seen the Solidarity brew for the Ukraine situation.
I was going to doing our monthly club brew and seen this a few days before,, so why not.
It labeled as an Anti Imperial stout. But feels more like a porter to me. I figured out a smaller abv batch to brew.. but as much as I like beets I decided to leave them out.
Ended up with an OG of 1.056. Has a good malt selection and really smells great in the kettle.
Been in the primary two weeks now so I’ll be taking a look at it one of these day now and decide when to get it kegged up.
There should be reviews of this recipe coming out soon from all over, and I can’t wait to compare what other proportions and gravities other people brewed.
Patagonia Porter
I won a pound of this Perla Negra roast grain a few weeks back so I figured I’d use it all in one blast to see what we get out of it.
All of the descriptions I’ve seen on it seem to make it out to be a “softer” roast. One of the huskless roasts, so should not have the bitter burnt aspect.
Other notes I’ve seen mention coffee and chocolate. It’s 340L so a pound shouldnt make it blacker than night, but we will see.
I also won a bag of Vienna with this, so I will use that as the base. I dont wanna hide the Perla profile so just a smidge of Crystal and I’ll call it good.
Before I got this into the fermenter I gave it a tatse. Very mild roast with bigger than expected chocolate and coffee. I can’t wait to get this one in a keg!
9stripe Brewing 