Irish Stout Recipe Mix - All Grain

We were looking for an easy kit to brew an Irish Stout for St. Patrick's day and Satchel kits came through. Everything you could need to brew this beer from start to finish is in this kit, making it very easy and fun to use. And the final product was exactly what we were hoping for. Cheers!

It's my first stout brewing experience. I was a little nervous about just how bitter, on the bitter scale this might turn out to be. At first sample after fermenting before bottling, I have to admit - my tongue was hanging out, panting. I thought, I might have gone over the edge for the range of my taste palette. But I didn't want to toss out perfectly good beer either, so I started trolling online to find out if this would perhaps smooth with aging past the normal bottle carbonation period. The answer was yes. Some experienced brewers said - 6 weeks to 3 months, "less bitter because of all the hop/grain polyphenols have dropped out." So, I bottled and waited but I did caved in at 4 weeks. It turned into a very smooth full & rich deep stout. Thankfully - I didn't panic and toss it out because I had turned from beer wench to beer wimp crybaby for a few minutes. I'd say, this ended up with high marks. I like Guinness (Draught &Extra Stouts) - and Satchel's Irish Stout, did not disappoint. I will be buying this again come winter.