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My ****** stout,****** cause its nearly gone!

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How do you guys get a white head on your stouts? All the ones I make come out with a dirty brown foaming head.
I know that it is really white in Guinness but that might have something to do with Nitrogen dispensing.
 
I use a lot of flaked barley in the mash?helps with head retention but not sure about the colour?.photo was taken under a bright light in the kitchen.Good question on how Guinness does it,dont know.One for the experts on this forum for sure.
 
For a white head on a black beer, use roast barley as the dark grain. Roast malt, also a dark grain will turn the head brown. Roast barley also has less of the burnt acrid flavours too. Simple, but easily confused.
 
Thanks for that mckenry never used roast barley last stout was a toucan with a bit of black malt, head is very brown. Will know for next time. You learn something everyday here.
 
The toucan could still give a brown head. Depends which grains they used in the first place.
 
drinking one of my first few BIABs. getting into fine tuning my process and getting my numbers and losses and **** down pat. this one turned out pretty sexy. only been 2 weeks in the bottle and tasting awesome. a few more weeks and i think he'll be a winner. first time using vienna malt. bit of a mish-mash of styles but not bad. still needs to clear a little.

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my latest
an ale with victory and abbey malt hopped with amerillo
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That sounds moreish barls.
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The latest Grisette as the keg approaches mt.
Far too drinkable for my own good.
 
Some kind of smoked ale.
I didn't keep very good record of this one but its:
22l batch
4kg Munich 2
900g peat smoked malt
70g choc wheat
30-35 IBU of something

Surprisingly tasty.

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Had my first Murrays Whale Ale whilst venturing south of the border a short time ago & was impressed. :icon_drool2:
My first attempt at cloning this beer went a little astray when I added Citra @ 0 minutes instead of continuing with the Kiwi hops
Very tasty nevertheless.

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bradsbrew said:
Poured another.

Edit. Oh FFS
:icon_offtopic: I have to rotate my pics in a viewer on my computer 360 degrees back to where they were for them to show up the right way on this forum. I dont know why but thats what works for me.
 
Hmm lots of huge heads on some of these beers! I prefer a slower pour...
Here's a Pale Ale at just under 3 weeks bottled. Tasting pretty good i must say!

(Disregard the weird looking **** on the glass, from my hands and the flash caught it...)

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My first attempt at an Oatmeal Stout. Inspired by my hometown in WA. Used just malted oats and removed the roasted barley. would defintaley include these on the next OMS

ABV - 5.8%

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TidalPete said:
Had my first Murrays Whale Ale whilst venturing south of the border a short time ago & was impressed. :icon_drool2:
My first attempt at cloning this beer went a little astray when I added Citra @ 0 minutes instead of continuing with the Kiwi hops
Very tasty nevertheless.
Haven't been dropping in on the thread, missed that one. Looks the goods, Pete. I'm currently doing a 150 lashes attempt but when that's kegged I'll be ridin' the whale again. Citra would be a nice touch in this style - I often add some Cascade NZ hop tea.
 
Getting funked up.
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Biere de Ble Noir - black wheat beer with 10% buckwheat.
Odd but good.
 
Happygoodtime Lice Rager.

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Tasty... And amazingly clear!
 
winkle said:
Getting funked up.
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Biere de Ble Noir - black wheat beer with 10% buckwheat.
Odd but good.
Is that a car in your bar? Why is there a car in your bar? Who drove it in there and what is their excuse?
 
You can't see the gimp, either. He's in the car...
 
Of course the car is in the bar - you dont think I'd walk that far do you??
The lava lamp is on for heating.
See it all makes sense, and if I wasn't so funked up I'd be at the Scratch drinking Dupont.
 
Red Lentil Red Ale. An Irish Red, with 20% Red Lentils cereal mashed and added to the grist..... Surprisingly good! Nom nom nom! (Though SWMBO does tell me it smells 'really beery'. Take that as you will!)

Two pics, well, just because its soooo purdy!

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winkle said:
Getting funked up.
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Biere de Ble Noir - black wheat beer with 10% buckwheat.
Odd but good.
Got to admit there's a car in your bar there Perry. Beer looks good but get rid of the car before the 22nd. :lol:
Nickster's Lice Rager looks really clear. What (Yank?) yeast is that Nick? ---- Chinese hops I would imagine? :ph34r: Been there -- done that. :p
VERY hard to clone a MWA Bribie what with all the different info on the yeast but love that "Riding The Whale" name & I now have copyright to that. :beer:

PS --- Just saw your post Perry. Cheers.
 
Geez Pete! Lots of assumptions there.... And you know what you do when you assume.... ;)

It's a 'Asian-style' lager because of the 20% Rice. Wyeast 2124 Boh Lager was the yeast. The hops are Mt. Hood (US). Not really a US hop being from English parentage, but still.

Tasty!

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What does the lentil beer really taste like Nick?
 
Honestly, if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't tell there was anything abnormal about it! Pop round for a few if you don't believe me!!
 
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