Dry Stout Recipe

[Pale Ale]

Hi Guys! I'm new to the forum and really enjoying it. I know you've probably been over this a hundred times but can someone share a recipe for a dry stout? I made a batch from a Brewers Best kit (Creamy Irish Stout ). It is good, but not what I was looking for. I can do a 5 gal. partial mash. And do you have to sanitize hop pellets before you put them in the secondary to dry hop?? Thanks in advance.

[toneyc]

From St. Pat's:

Irish Stout:
OG 1.057 5% alc. ala Guinness.
1/2 lb crystal 60
1/4 lb chocolate
3/4 lb black barley
8 lb Briess dark
2 oz Bullion (60 min)
1 oz Willamette (15 min)
Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast

:)
Toney.

[barley ben]

And do you have to sanitize hop pellets before you put them in the secondary to dry hop??

Nope, just toss em in and rack as usual. Personally, I use whole hops for dry hopping. Not as much messy trub in the secondary to try to keep out at bottling. The only down side is you may loose about half a beer in the end but you will loose more than that if you try to keep the pellet trub out of your bottling bucket(or what-ever you use to bottle).

[Huzzy]

What is a partial mash?

[barley ben]

It is when you use extracts as half your fermentables and mash grains for the other half. It lets you fine tune recipes and be a bit more creative with out going into full blown all-grain. Also some styles need ingredients that that have to be mashed with the enzymes from base malts so as said above, you can do a partial mash to convert those and finish it off with extracts in the boil.

[barley ben]

It is when you use extracts as half your fermentables and mash grains for the other half.

Just so I don't give any bad info. It doesn't have to be 50/50.

[Pale Ale]

Thanks for all your helpful information!:D

[I'mRocketMan]

Originally posted by barley ben
Nope, just toss em in and rack as usual. Personally, I use whole hops for dry hopping. Not as much messy trub in the secondary to try to keep out at bottling. The only down side is you may loose about half a beer in the end but you will loose more than that if you try to keep the pellet trub out of your bottling bucket(or what-ever you use to bottle).

I'm going to try dry-hopping a Celebration ale clone and I think I'll put the hop "plugs" in a small grain bag and tie it off... It may help keep the trub down...

Cheers! Rocket