Sweet (Milk) Stout

[SiHoltye]

A sweet stout is just that; a jet-black ale with a roasted-malt character that's offset by a residual sweetness and a full body. Sometimes known as cream stouts or milk stouts, English brewers made them as a nourishing, healthy drink for nursing women and invalids. Brewers add unfermentable sugars, usually lactose, to the brew kettle to add body and some sweetness.

Hello,

Anybody made a Milk Stout?

23L@85% efficiency, 90min mash @ 67°C, 90min boil, liquor = stout

Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
2.63 kg Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 64.23 %
0.40 kg Roasted Barley (591.0 EBC) Grain 9.73 %
0.28 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 55L (120.0 EBC) Grain 6.81 %
0.28 kg Special B Malt (250.0 EBC) Grain 6.81 %
50.00 gm Fuggles [4.50 %] (90 min) Hops 23.5 IBU
0.40 kg Dememera Sugar (3.9 EBC) Sugar 9.73 %
0.11 kg Milk Sugar (Lactose) (0.0 EBC) Sugar 2.69 %
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.046 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 4.42 %
Bitterness: 23.5 IBU
Est Color: 51.7 EBC

I know I mention this brewery a bit but I like Harvey's Sweet Sussex Stout. It only comes in nip bottles and at 3%ABV. Would like a big brother of that really. Any thoughts welcomed.

[arturobandini]

Hi Si,

I'm not sure if you've ever had a beer from the St Peter's brewery? They make a Cream Stout (same as sweet/milk) which has a higher ABV than your example and is absolutely delicious. I've been looking for a recipe for it for some time but to no avail. You can usually get the St Peter's range is an oddbins or similar whereas you seem to be limited to Mackesons Milk Stout most other places. St Peter's also comes in magnificent looking bottles though I'm not sure about how they cap for homebrew usage.

[oblivious]

I think the St Peter's brewery stout is just a name rather the addition of Lactose,

[John F]

I've made the Mackeson's Export from Graham Wheeler's European Beers book a couple of times. Very, very good!