# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Guinness Draught Clone

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og: 1.038 m: English pale ale malt, 63.8, 2.2, 83 m: Flaked barley, 27.6, 1.5, 70 m: Roasted barley 500L, 8.6, 500, 54 ibu: 45 h: East Kent Goldings, 100, 5.0, 60 y: ale

Variation for a steeped grain plus malt extract version:

- Delete the pale ale malt and flaked barley lines.
- For liquid malt extract: add s: Liquid light malt extract, 91.4, 5, 76
- For dry malt extract: add s: Dry light malt extract, 91.4, 3.5, 96
- Set the mash efficiency variable to 55% for steeping.

Target volume

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Measurement Units
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Mash Efficiency

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## Results

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## Notes

Guinness Draught is an iconic stout from Ireland.

Guinness has a "tang" that is difficult to replicate. 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

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