🍺 Top-down Brew: Guinness Draught Clone

Recipe Variables

Variations

Steeped grains plus malt extract:

Delete the pale ale malt and flaked barley lines.
For liquid malt extract: add sugar: Liquid light malt extract, 92, 5, 76
For dry malt extract: add sugar: Dry light malt extract, 92, 3.5, 96
Set the mash efficiency variable to 55% for steeping.

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Results

Notes

Guinness Draught is an iconic stout from Ireland.

Guinness has a slight "tang" that is difficult for homebrewers to replicate. For the adventurous, the recipe suggests fermenting 19 ounces of wort (for 5 gallons) with lactobacillus and brettanomyces. This should be gently heated to 160F (71C) for deactivating these organisms, then add to the main batch before packaging.

Irish ale yeast is recommended. Other English ale yeasts are possible substitutes.

Reference

The Brew Your Own Big Book of Clone Recipes, (2018), Guinness Draught, p. 107