Al's Medium-dry Stout

Classification: stout, dry stout, Irish stout, extract

Source: Al Korzonas (korz@iepubj.att.com), HBD Issue #1013, 11/16/92

There was a time that I thought this was a dead-ringer for Guinness, but that was a long time ago and I've switched to brewing sweet stouts since then.

Ingredients:

6.6 lbs John Bull Unhopped Dark Malt Extract
0.5 lb Roasted Un-malted Barley
0.5 lb Black Patent Malt
1/3 oz Wines Inc. Burton Water Salts
3 oz Cluster Pellets (60 min boil)
6 gal Soft Tapwater in brewkettle
1 pkg Wyeast #1084 Irish Ale yeast
1/2 cup Corn Sugar for priming

Procedure:

I just strongly suggest using the blowoff method, because if you don't I feel this beer will be much too astringent.