Description

A Tribute to Guinness Original – Part Grain Kit

Guinness Original Stout has a dark toffee colour with a light head. The distinctive aromas of roasted barley malts, toasty chocolate and coffee come through from the first taste. The flavour is velvet chocolate and coffee with a delicious, slightly bitter aftertaste. There is a perfect balance of bitter and sweet flavours with malt and roast characters. The palate is smooth, creamy and balanced. This is what has made Guinness one of the best selling beers in the world. This kit produces 40 pints of delicious, creamy stout at 4.2% ABV.

Tribute Series

The Dark Rock Tribute series allows you to produce beers which mirror the classic commercial favourites. Carefully selected and matched quality hops, malts, and yeast to give you the closest possible result. We design tribute beers not to be clones, as factors such as water source and yeast type will be individual to each one. Have fun by comparing the commercial beer against your own to see how close you can get.

The Commercial Brewery:

Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at 45 Irish Pounds per year for 9,000 years, the St James Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. The company merged with Grand Metropolitan in 1997 to form Diageo plc, capitalised in 2006 at approximately 40 billion euros. Although not officially fully taken over, the Guinness family still owns 51 per cent of the brewery. St. James’s Gate Brewery, Dublin brews the production of all Guinness sold in the UK and Ireland.

What Makes Dark Rock Part Grain Kits So Special?

Part grain beer kits are an excellent way to take your brewing to the next level. Brewing takes a little longer using this method, but the results are well worth it. With our friendly expert guidance, these kits are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced brewers. All you need extra is a pan and a thermometer. By adding a ‘mini-mash’ to the malt extract brewing technique, using different varieties of malt and hops, you can create more complex flavoursome beers according to your taste.

Dark Rock provides the ultimate range of part grain kits. Our expert knowledge of brewing combined with sourcing only the finest quality ingredients means Dark Rock part grain kits will enable you to brew exceptional beer that will rival any you can buy in pubs and shops.

Dark Rock kits combine 3kg of the finest quality malt extract with a blend of premium malt grains and hops sourced by us from around the world. We believe our kits are the best on the market and feedback from our many satisfied customers’ backs this up. We buy all ingredients fresh, store them, and weigh them into individual bags. Hops are vacuum packed in nitrogen-flushed foil bags to produce the maximum flavour and aromas.

Whatever your brewing experience, a part grain kit is a great choice and requires minimal investment in equipment. With such a wide range of beer styles to choose from, there is sure to be a beer for you, whether it is a tropical pale ale, a rich stout, or a refreshing pilsner.

What’s Included?

• 3kg Brewery Quality Liquid Malt Extract
• Premium Brewing Yeast
• Malt Grains
• Hop Pellets
• Pure Brew (water treatment and nutrient)
• Britewort clarifier
• Muslin straining bag
• Starbrite Beer Finings (Vegan-Friendly)
• Fermenter / keg ID sticker
• Full instructions

Allergy Advice: Includes barley and other Cereals, containing gluten

Equipment Needed

Basic beer making equipment:

• 25 Litre Fermenter
• Airlock
• Syphon Kit
• Hydrometer
• Thermometer
• Sanitiser
• Mixing Paddle
• Bottles or Barrel

You will also need a boiling pan (at least 15-litre capacity)

Specifications

• Makes: 40 pints / 5 gallons
• ABV Approx: 4.2%
• Target Finishing Gravity: 1.014 (approx)
• Fermentation time: 7-14 days approx
• Conditioning time: 2 weeks minimum (it will mature further if left longer)

Tips

This kit includes a sachet of Pure Brew to achieve commercial quality. Pure Brew is a professional beer enhancer. It feeds the yeast with essential nutrients, which supercharge the fermentation and support yeast development (even in limited oxygen conditions). Pure Brew  treats brewing water to eliminate the ‘homebrew’ or medicinal taste that Chlorine and Chloramine can cause.

Brewers often overlook the critical condition of brewing water, which is essential to achieve optimum results. By using Pure Brew, you can effectively and easily condition brewing water, and maximise effective fermentation. We strongly recommend using Pure Brew with all of your beers to improve their quality.

You could consider investing in a metal hop spider to effectively manage hop additions into the boiling process. The hop spider would sit inside your boiler and allow you to drop hops into the boil in a controlled way. Hop Spiders allow hops to boil with more free flow space around them. You can easily clean them and reuse them over and over again. They also prevent hop sediment (known as trub) from clogging up pumping systems when using all in one brewing equipment.

Finings

The addition of beer finings will improve the final quality of your beers. This kit includes Starbrite finings. They will help your beer to clear quickly and the sediment will be more likely to stay at the bottom of bottles or barrels. If you are using Corny Kegs then it is important to clear the beer as much as possible before kegging. Beer Finings will promote a faster and more efficient fall out of sediment and haze particles prior to kegging (crash chilling your beer with a Glycol Chiller will also help to eliminate sediment). Harris Starbrite is a highly effective vegan-friendly beer fining, which is rapidly becoming a firm favourite with home brewers. It is suitable for all beers.