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Just for a change, here’s another Heineken Stout recipe. This time, it’s one with the standard production grist. Rather than the weird one with mild malt and roast barley.
As this comes from one of the detailed pilot brewery records, I’ve exact details about the process. Which is always nice. But let’s kick off with the grist.
Many of the elements are the same as in their dark Lagers: caramel mout, kleur mout and “donker”, which I assume means dark Munich malt. Though there’s quite a bit more roasted malt than you’d find in the Lagers. There’s also a bit of sugar which was added in the copper. I’ve no idea what it specifically was. But I do know that they had played around with CDM (caramelised malto-dextrose) so I’ve plumped for something dark, in the form of No. 3 invert.
There was just a single type of hops: Saaz from the 1953 harvest. Quite a lot of them. And, unlike with their Lagers, more were added at the start of the boil rather than at the end.
The beer was lagered for three weeks. In the tank there was a bag with half a kilo of hops per hectolitre. Which is an awful lot. More than I can recall ever seeing in a British Stout.
I’m pretty sure this was marketed as van Vollenhoven’s Stout. A beer originally produced by one of Heineken’s Amsterdam rivals which they took over and closed in the 1940s.
1956 Heineken Stout
Munich malt 20 L
6.50 lb
40.00%
pilsner malt
3.50 lb
21.54%
crystal malt 60 L
3.75 lb
23.08%
carafa III
1.00 lb
6.15%
No. 3 invert sugar
1.50 lb
9.23%
Saaz 150 mins
2.50 oz
Saaz 90 mins
1.75 oz
Saaz 30 mins
1.50 oz
Saaz dry hops
4.00 oz
OG
1073
FG
1018
ABV
7.28
Apparent attenuation
75.34%
IBU
56
SRM
45
Mash at
122º F
Raise to
154º F
Sparge at
167º F
Boil time
150 minutes
pitching temp
54º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale
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Just for a change, here’s another Heineken Stout recipe. This time, it’s one with the standard production grist. Rather than the weird one with mild malt and roast barley.
As this comes from one of the detailed pilot brewery records, I’ve exact details about the process. Which is always nice. But let’s kick off with the grist.
Many of the elements are the same as in their dark Lagers: caramel mout, kleur mout and “donker”, which I assume means dark Munich malt. Though there’s quite a bit more roasted malt than you’d find in the Lagers. There’s also a bit of sugar which was added in the copper. I’ve no idea what it specifically was. But I do know that they had played around with CDM (caramelised malto-dextrose) so I’ve plumped for something dark, in the form of No. 3 invert.
There was just a single type of hops: Saaz from the 1953 harvest. Quite a lot of them. And, unlike with their Lagers, more were added at the start of the boil rather than at the end.
The beer was lagered for three weeks. In the tank there was a bag with half a kilo of hops per hectolitre. Which is an awful lot. More than I can recall ever seeing in a British Stout.
I’m pretty sure this was marketed as van Vollenhoven’s Stout. A beer originally produced by one of Heineken’s Amsterdam rivals which they took over and closed in the 1940s.
1956 Heineken Stout
Munich malt 20 L
6.50 lb
40.00%
pilsner malt
3.50 lb
21.54%
crystal malt 60 L
3.75 lb
23.08%
carafa III
1.00 lb
6.15%
No. 3 invert sugar
1.50 lb
9.23%
Saaz 150 mins
2.50 oz
Saaz 90 mins
1.75 oz
Saaz 30 mins
1.50 oz
Saaz dry hops
4.00 oz
OG
1073
FG
1018
ABV
7.28
Apparent attenuation
75.34%
IBU
56
SRM
45
Mash at
122º F
Raise to
154º F
Sparge at
167º F
Boil time
150 minutes
pitching temp
54º F
Yeast
Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale
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