Archival Coffin

A few weeks ago, we brought out our super sweet friends Josh and Kevin from Requiem to brew some awesome British beer with us! This is a modern adaption of the recipe for Truman’s 1840 Running Stout; in the pre-war era, stout was commonly brewed a lighter color than it is today, featuring huge hopping rates and bitterness, and generally even called “Brown Stout.” In that spirit we brewed this across a 3 thread mash of Simpson’s Maris Otter, Brown, and Black malt, hopping heavily with EKG and Whitbread Golding, and carrying out a boil of around 3 hours. The magic of vintage British recipe is on full display here: bitterness, roast, and body sort of fading-into and forgiving one another.