Black Forest Stout Beer Kit - All Grain

Description

Your Black Forest Stout draws deep notes of dark chocolate and roasted coffee from its grain bill of pale malt, roasted barley, chocolate malt, caramel malt, and black patent malt. Northern Brewer at 60 minutes supplies clean bitterness while Fuggle at 15 minutes adds a gentle earthy aroma that settles into the dense malt body. SafAle S-04 ferments cleanly so the roasted and caramel flavors remain prominent, giving you a smooth, full-bodied stout with lingering richness.

Your Label Peelers Black Forest Stout – All Grain Original Beer Kit never sits on a shelf; your grains are crushed to order, your ingredients are packed fresh, and you never pay for a flashy box. It’s all about giving you the purest, freshest building blocks so you can brew your best beer every time.

Beer Specifications

• ABV: 5.9% - 6.5%
• Original Gravity: 1.059 - 1.069
• Final Gravity: 1.012 - 1.017
• IBUs: 29
• SRM: 46

Disclaimer: All calculations are for approximation purposes only.

Ingredients

Grain Bill

• 10 lbs Pale Malt (2-Row)
• 1 lb Roasted Barley
• 12 oz Chocolate Malt
• 8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L
• 4 oz Black Patent Malt

Hops (substitutions based on availability)

• 1 oz Northern Brewer Hops (60 min)
• 1 oz Fuggle Hops (15 min)

Yeast (substitutions based on availability)

• Package of Dry Yeast (SafAle S-04)

Also Included

• 5 oz Priming Sugar

Instructions

Hop Schedule

• 1 oz Northern Brewer Hops (60 min)
• 1 oz Fuggle Hops (15 min)

Prepare Equipment

1. Sanitize all brewing equipment thoroughly.

Mash

1. Heat 4 - 4.5 gallons of strike water to 165°F. *Adjust for your brew system's heat loss.*
2. Add crushed grains to your mash tun and maintain mash at 154°F for 60 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Sparge

1. Heat 4 gallons of water to 170°F for sparging.
2. Slowly rinse the grains, collecting about 6.5 gallons of pre-boil wort.

Boil

1. Bring the wort to a rolling boil.
2. Boil for a total of 60 minutes.
3. Add hops at the following times: 1 oz Northern Brewer for 60 minutes (bittering).
4. 1 oz Fuggle for 15 minutes (flavor).

Cool and Transfer

1. Cool the wort rapidly to 68°F using an immersion or counterflow chiller.
2. Transfer the cooled wort to a sanitized fermenter and top off with clean, filtered water to exactly 5 gallons.

Fermentation

1. Pitch the yeast into the fermenter.
2. Ferment at 65°F for 10–14 days.

Priming for Bottling

1. Transfer to a sanitized bottling bucket and stir in 5 oz. priming sugar. Mix until evenly distributed and bottle your beer.
2. Once bottled, allow 2 weeks for carbonation in a cool, dark room. Enjoy!

Kegging

1. Transfer the beer into a sanitized keg.
2. Seal and purge oxygen by burping the keg with CO₂.
3. Set the CO₂ regulator to 12 PSI and store at 38°F for 2-3 weeks.