c43284 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Thats right, i'm a massive fan of black beer and i've made a stout 2 months ago with only 20litres and its all gone. i've got a lager in the fride and a aussie pale ready to bottle but i would love to try and make something thick and creamy like guinness. please can anyone help? the lager was my first i did that 3months ago so i'm only new to it all and very keen to experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 The Guinness on tap in Australia and in the 440ml can is, in fact, not very thick. Colour is 121ECB (our commercial Stout is around 200EBC), Bitterness is 33.8 IBU (our Original Series Stout when fermented is around 44.4IBU), and the SG is 1.7P (1.007). I think it is the use of Nitrogen that gives the impression of THICKNESS. Meantime watch this space for the new release of the Brewmaster Selection - I'm very happy with the final products - the release date is scheduled for February (not sure exactly what date). Message board readers will be the first to know!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 ... and to answer what was probably going to be the next question, you can only achieve the same level of creaminess at home if you keg your beer and use nitrogen (instead of the usual carbon dioxide) to pour your beers. It's just not possible with bottling. But as I rate Guinness fairly lowly on my list of beers (controversial, I know!), it doesn't bother me that I can't do it at home. I like a real stout, like a Cooper's or a homebrew :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c43284 Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 thank you both for your informative answers. i will just keep brewing and experimenting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wort Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I have just moved from my home town where I was keging, (now on bottles) and we had an adaptor or diffuser that screwed on to the end of the tap and would make our stout pour exactly like a Gunniess at the pub! Tasted creamy, and had a creamy head all the way down, we only used co2. Mabe nitrogen would have been better dunno. Mabe someone might know where to get one of these? We got ours from a friend who used to work at a pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Interesting. I'm sure a few people here would like to know more about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wort Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I found a web page http://www.morebeer.com/browse.html?category_id=2293&keyword=&x=1&y=1 If you look at the Guinness tap page it says You can use a stout faucet with your existing CO2 system and get about 80% of the "Guinness" effect. If you want the full effect you will need to have a beer gas mix system which is based on using a mix of 75% Nitrogen and 25% CO2 These taps are almost the same thing, but ours were little black things about the size of the end of your thumb that screwed on to the end of the tap. My mate says they called them creamers, they work good the beer tastes creamy but mabe a little flat. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c43284 Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 That does sound great. but i'm only new to all this, is kegging any harder than bottling? what about the cost of it? it would be great to have my own keg full of beer in the garage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 You can use a stout faucet with your existing CO2 system and get about 80% of the "Guinness" effect. If you want the full effect you will need to have a beer gas mix system which is based on using a mix of 75% Nitrogen and 25% CO2 Bizarre: You can get 80% of the Guinness effect with 100% CO2 but if you want 100% Guinness effect you need 25% CO2. Isn't physics wonderful :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c43284 Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 i was dooing a bit of looking around on the net the other day for keg systems and i found one of those nozzeles wort was talking about, they called it an "airater for a guinness tap" it was $28 but i dont rember the name of the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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