chocolate stout

nuggitmv · Mar 9, 2012

trying to put a chocolate stout together and come up with this :wha:

23l

maris otter 4500g

barley roasted 200g

chocolate malt 100g

oats 200g

70% coco chocolate (flame out) 500g

hops
fuggles 70g 90 mins
30g 00 mins

alanywiseman. · Mar 9, 2012

I currently have a Chocolate sout on the go. It is made up from two Coopers Irish stout cans plus sugar, DME and 700g cocoa powder. I dont like doing things by half measures.

I boiled the DME in my biggest pan and added the cocoa powder at flame out. I took the gravity the other day and had a taste. It had been fermenting for about 10 days and was at 1.024 (OG about 1.085). The addition of the cocoa powder gave it a very bitter taste.

Searching online there is mixed reviews on using Cocoa powder in beer for this very reason. I am hoping with enough conditioning it will mellow out and make a great strong stout. I found this in my searches just incase it helps. Chocolate Porter

nuggitmv · Mar 9, 2012

ok thanks may make a few adjustments :thumb:

alanywiseman. · Mar 9, 2012

As a added extra I have read that a number of breweries add chcolate extract when that bottle to intensify the chcolate flavour. Just another idea to further confuse things :thumb:

nuggitmv · Mar 9, 2012

hmmm may tone down the chocolate to 250g as that 70% is very bitter anyway and maybe some dark brown sugar

unclepumble · Mar 9, 2012

I would add some lactose, it is a must as it adds body and mellows out the bitterness.
use roast barley and twice as much chocolate malt as the roast barley.
and some flaked barley to it, Aldi 85% cocoa chocolate works well about 125g for 23ltrs, as there is less cocoa butter in 85% than 70%, cocoa butter = less head retention due to the oil. 500g is far too much for 23ltrs.

Fuggle are a good hop to use but keep the bitterness in between 18-23IBU, and only use a bittering addition for 60mins, you don't want the hops pushing the chocolate out of the way.

Use Notty Gervin or windsor as they are all pretty neutral.

I have 100% Cacao from Willies Cacao ready to go in my next chocolate stout.

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