Here’s the Mackeson’s Stout clone we made a few days back, entered here for reference.
12 September, 2004
Ingredients:
1 lb. 60° L Crystal Malt
12 oz. Chocolate Malt
4 oz. Black Patent Malt
5.25 lb. Dried Light Malt Extract
14 oz. Lactose
8 oz. Maltodextrin
1 oz. East Kent Goldings hops
1 tsp. Irish Moss
1 Package Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast
Procedure
| Step | Time | Instruction |
| 1 | X | Add 3 gallons of water to the brewing pot. Raise temperature to 150 degrees F. |
| 2 | X | Process the malts in the food processor lightly to crack them. Add them to muslin bags and tie the bags closed. |
| 3 | 11:50 | Place the bags into the water and allow the grains to steep. Maintain the temperature at 145 – 150 degrees F. |
| 4 | 12:10 | After 20 minutes, sparge with 2 gallon of hot water. Discard the grain bag. |
| 5 | X | Add the Dried Malt Extract, Lactose, and Maltodextrin to the pot slowly, dispersing the powder in by rapid stirring. |
| 6 | X | Stir the pot until the powders is completely dissolved. Make sure no powders remains floating on the surface. |
| 7 | 12:16 | Restart the burner and bring the pot to a boil. |
| 8 | X | Place 1 oz. of EK Goldings hops into a muslin bag. |
| 9 | 12:47 | When the pot begins to boil, add the EK Goldings hops to the pot. |
| 10 | X | Monitor the pot for the first 10 minutes to make sure it does not boil over. If it appears ready to boil over, turn down the heat. |
| 11 | 13:45 | 55 minutes after the pot started boiling, add Irish Moss to the pot. |
| 12 | 13:50 | Five minutes later, turn off the heat. |
| 13 | X | Cool the pot as quickly as possible. |
| 14 | 14:05 | When the temperature of the wort is below 95 degrees F, pour it into the fermenter. Stir vigorously. Top off the fermenter with tap water to 5 gallons. |
| 15 | X | When the fermenter temperature is at 70 degrees or below, pitch the yeast. |
This recipe was taken from Clone Brews. It went into a 7-gallon carboy and we had no problems with foaming. This was my first attempt at a full five-gallon batch, and it went pretty well. The nice thing is that the wort is so dilute, there’s really no chance of boilover. On the downside, even with a 60,000+ BTU propane burner it still takes a good 30 minutes to bring 5 gallons to a boil.