Leftovers Stout

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Hi All, I could do with a bit of advice again.

I fancy putting a brew on tomorrow but have a bit of a shortage of ingredients.

Current proposed recipe for 25L

3.5 Kg Maris Otter
500g Wheat Malt
500g Amber Malt
500g Chocolate Malt

Apart from another 150g of Chocolate and a pile of Black Malt thats all my grain used up.

FWH

10g Fuggles
20g Northdown
10g Target

Should give me an IBU of 37.

Will I get away with putting this much Chocolate Malt in?

Any tips welcome.

Thanks

[WishboneBrewery]

Will I get away with putting this much Chocolate Malt in?

Yes, its only 10%, I'd maybe halve the Amber malt (though that said that Chocolate Malt Might cover up a lot of the Amber flavours so it might be OK)

Lets see what others say...

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Cheers for your reply. I took the gamble and brewed it yesterday, it smelt wonderful while it was boiling, and the sample I took to test the OG certainly tasted like it has the potential to turn out quite nice.

It's a good job I like coffee!!

Time to pay a visit to the Malt Miller to stock up on some more ingredients now.

[WishboneBrewery]

[Normski]

Hi Steve

That looks like a lot of Chocolate there mate. I’m gonna be interested to here how it tastes after a reasonable condition. I have a porter that I made about a year ago, I used 150G of Chocolate and it was far too much.

[Normski]

Then again, I've just found one of Grahams Squeamish recipes that has 450g of chocolate malt. so maybe it'll be good. i hope so. Keep us posted Steve.

[simco999]

Don't keep us in suspenders Steve - what was the OG??

[GrowlingDogBeer]

It got an OG of 1.045, so about 75% efficiency which I'm happy with. It is very dark.

It is currently happily bubbling away in the fermenter at a condtant 20C, hopefully!! It was on Monday so I'm sure it's still fine.

I will probaby be racking it on Saturday so I'll sneak out a little sample to see how it's going.