Let's Brew Wednesday - 1909 Truman Single Stout

Here we are at base of the Truman Stout tree. With plain old Single Stout. Or Stout.

At a bit over 1070º, it was strong enough to distinguish itself from their Porter. Don’t take the FG as gospel. That’s just my wild guess. In this period, Truman had separate fermentation records.

The grist is pretty weird for a London Stout. Also, a dead confusing one for style Nazis. No brown malt, but both black malt and roast barley. How’s that for weird? Other than that, there’s just flaked maize and sugar.

Not sure what the bulk of it was, The description is “Fowler” and “Fowler Pgs”. I’ve taken the easy way out and specified No. 3 invert. There’s also rather a lot of caramel, with no hint as to its colour.

Three types of hops: two from Worcester and one from Oregon, all from the 1908 season. 

1909 Truman Single Stout
pale malt	12.25 lb	77.78%
black malt	0.50 lb	3.17%
roast barley	0.50 lb	3.17%
flaked maize	0.50 lb	3.17%
No. 3 invert sugar	1.50 lb	9.52%
caramel 500 SRM	0.50 lb	3.17%
Cluster 120 mins	1.00 oz
Fuggles 60 mins	1.50 oz
Fuggles 30 mins	1.50 oz
Goldings dry hops	0.50 oz
OG	1072
FG	1020
ABV	6.88
Apparent attenuation	72.22%
IBU	47
SRM	38
Mash at	157º F
Sparge at	175º F
Boil time	120 minutes
pitching temp	60.5º F
Yeast	Wyeast 1099 Whitbread Ale