In “Session Stouts: Big Flavor in Small Packages” (Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®, February/March 2017), Josh Weikert explains that with just a bit of tweaking, you can produce a range of session stouts that preserve the complexity and interest of their full-strength cousins. Here, he runs through a real-life example to illustrate the overall method of “downsizing” a stout to sessionable.
ALL-GRAIN
OG: 1.045
FG: 1.020
IBUs: 45
ABV: 4.4%