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Brook Trout Stout 2016

Brook Trout Stout 2016

Sweet Stout • All Grain • 5.5 gal

mikfir

Makes you want to add whipped cream

February 24, 2016  03:26pm

5.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (All Grain5.5 gal)

  • 8.5 lbs Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt;Thomas Fawcett

    Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt;Thomas Fawcett

    A principal ingredient of cask ales using heritage barleys.

  • 1 lbs 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L;Briess

    2-Row Caramel Malt 60L;Briess

    Sweet, Pronounced Caramel. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts deep golden to red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to amber and red beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • .75 lbs British Black Patent

    British Black Patent

    Dry, burnt, chalky character. Use in porters, stouts, brown ales and dark lagers.

  • .375 lbs Chocolate;Crisp

    Chocolate;Crisp

    Roasted malts for ‘winter warmer’ styles. Rich, dark colours with burnt toast dryness.

  • .5 lbs Belgian Cara-Pils

    Belgian Cara-Pils

    Significantly increases foam/head retention and body of the beer.

  • .75 lbs Lactose

    Lactose

    Adds sweetness and body. Use in sweet or milk stouts.

  • .25 lbs Dark Brown Sugar

    Dark Brown Sugar

    Imparts rich, sweet flavor. Use in Scottish ales, old ales and holiday beers.

  • 1.25 oz East Kent Goldings -5.0 AA% whole; boiled 75 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • .5 oz Fuggle -4.8 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • .5 oz East Kent Goldings -5.0 AA% whole; boiled 1 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • .5lb Cocoa Powder -10 mins (omitted from calculations)

    Cocoa Powder

    Cocoa powder is made when chocolate liquor is pressed to remove three quarters of its cocoa butter. The remaining cocoa solids are processed to make fine unsweetened cocoa powder.Tastes very bitter and gives a deep chocolate flavor.

  • 1.25tsp Cinnamon (ground) -10 mins (omitted from calculations)

    Cinnamon (ground)

    Cinnamon is the dried bark of various laurel trees in the cinnamomun family. One of the more common trees from which Cinnamon is derived is the cassia. Ground cinnamon is perhaps the most common baking spice. Ground cinnamon is ground from long pieces of bark that are rolled, pressed, and dried.

  • 2ea Vanilla (whole bean) -secondary (omitted from calculations)

    Vanilla (whole bean)

    Vanilla Beans have a sweet, perfumed aroma with a woody or smoky flavor. Pure Vanilla Extract has a similar aroma. Vanilla Beans are the long, greenish-yellow seed pods of the tropical orchid plant, Vanilla planifolia. Before the plant flowers, the pods are picked, unripe, and cured until they're dark brown. The process takes up to six months.

  • White LabsWLP004Irish Stout

    White LabsWLP004Irish Stout

    This is the yeast from one of the oldest stout producing breweries in the world. It produces a slight hint of diacetyl, balanced by a light frui|iness and slight dry crispness. Great for Irish ales, stouts, porters, browns, reds and a very interesting pal

Notes

Mash at 158, ferment at 165, add 2 oz marshmallow root in secondary

Style (BJCP)

Category: 16 -Dark British Beer

Subcategory: A -Sweet Stout

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.057 1.044 -1.060
Terminal Gravity: 1.019 1.012 -1.024
Color: 31.2 SRM 30 -40
Alcohol: 4.9% ABV 4% -6%
Bitterness: 30.6 IBU 20 -40

Discussion

mikfir

Absolutely delicious

2016-03-23 11:45am

Rich, creamy and very drinkable

mikfir

Delicious

2016-09-07 10:41am

I've brewed a lot of stouts, but this by far the best ever

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