Breakfast stout definition??

[suffolkbeer]

Having read that the champion beer of Britain this year is a ‘Breakfast Stout’ and also having seen KBS and other similar beers but never having drink one.....

What is the definition of a Breakfast Stout? Is it just an oatmeal stout with chocolate and coffee?

Also any good recipes that I could try??

 

[Brewed_Force]

Maybe its got bacon and eggs in it......

 

[Brewed_Force]

I'm going to go away and come up with a recipe for "Full English Breakfast Stout"
Do I add the sausages before or after the boil ?

 

[strange-steve]

Yep coffee and oatmeal usually, and if you get a chance to try either Founders KBS or Breakfast Stout then do so, they're both divine.

 

[Drunkula]

In mine I use croissants with jam, coffee, maybe a pain chocolat. Only continental breakfast items. Oh no, that's for my Brexfast Stout.

You win some you lose some.

 

[AMyd666]

KBS is beautiful but pricey. My favourite just now is Drygate's Mocha Milk Stout (was previously Breakfast Stout). Gorgeous stuff, which I want to replicate. I recently cleared lidl of their stock!

 

[Zephyr259]

Think you need lactose in there too for the milk component. I'd expect a coffee oatmeal milk stout, chocolate optional.

 

[ACBEV]

Cornflakes too (flaked maize)

 

[Clint]

There are various versions. Here's two...
1. Duttos.....he pours homebrew stout on his rice crispies.
2. Myquls....is brewed precisely between the hours of 6 and 7 am,timed by the Greenwich atomic clock which he actually invented and built in the cupboard under his stairs amongst his flat cap and flip flop collection.

 

[rats_eyes]

Brewdog made a memorable version of this a number of years ago that was around 15% abv and had maple syrup and (somehow) smokey bacon in it. It sounds like the worst kind of "craft" beer excess, but was effing fantastic. Think it was called lumberjack stout or something similar

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[chrissyr63]

So is it just cocopops with vodka - how is that a new style?

 

[MyQul]

There are various versions. Here's two...
1. Duttos.....he pours homebrew stout on his rice crispies.
2. Myquls....is brewed precisely between the hours of 6 and 7 am,timed by the Greenwich atomic clock which he actually invented and built in the cupboard under his stairs amongst his flat cap and flip flop collection.

Greenwich is about 2 miles from the Hamlet. So usually I just take my kit on the back of the recumbent and brew on the Greenwich meridian line at the Royal Observatory

 

[MyQul]

Brewdog made a memorable version of this a number of years ago that was around 15% abv and had maple syrup and (somehow) smokey bacon in it. It sounds like the worst kind of "craft" beer excess, but was effing fantastic. Think it was called lumberjack stout or something similar

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To add bacon flavour to beer you use a technique called 'fat washing', which has been pinched from cocktail mixology. Basically you soak the bacon in vodka for a while, then put the vodka in the freezer. The fat from the bacon freezes but the now bacon flavoured vodka doesnt. Scrape the frozen fat off. Then add the bacon flavoured vodka to the beer

 

[rats_eyes]

To add bacon flavour to beer you use a technique called 'fat washing', which has been pinched from cocktail mixology. Basically you soak the bacon in vodka for a while, then put the vodka in the freezer. The fat from the bacon freezes but the now bacon flavoured vodka doesnt. Scrape the frozen fat off. Then add the bacon flavoured vodka to the beer

I might give that a try if i ever get a bacon beer urge again! Thanks for the ti. I'm not sure that's how brewdog would have set about it, as i'd imagine adding spirit in a tincture would have been an issue in licensing terms.

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[Clint]

Boddingtons should try that.... with beer!

 

[Zephyr259]

To add bacon flavour to beer you use a technique called 'fat washing', which has been pinched from cocktail mixology. Basically you soak the bacon in vodka for a while, then put the vodka in the freezer. The fat from the bacon freezes but the now bacon flavoured vodka doesnt. Scrape the frozen fat off. Then add the bacon flavoured vodka to the beer

Still sounds horrendous, but then I have a sweet tooth so have trouble with the concept of bacon-flavoured beer.

 

[rank_frank]

bacon flavoured beer is not something I'd go for but I do remember that some years back a colleague of mine achieved just that accidentally by using some smoked malt. I can't remember what he was trying to make but it was almost as bad as the garlic flavoured beer I had in the Isle of Wight once.

 

[Llamaman]

Scherlenka Rauchbier tastes slightly of ham. So yes, smoked malt has a porcine quality to it, without the need for bothering a pig or using vodka.