Milk Stout Finishing

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Milk Stout Finishing

Post by hambrook » Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:30 pm

So brewed my first Milk Stout based on a rather beefy Mackeson clone recipe on Beersmith;
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Its been in the fermenter for 9 days and is sat at 1019 which I assume is seems fine due the Lactose Milk Sugar added in the boil?
- Do you crash soon to drop the yeast out of solution like a regular ale
- Do you batch prime with normal table sugar ? 1.5 vols carbonation?

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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by scuppeteer » Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:22 pm

Do you crash soon to drop the yeast out of solution like a regular ale: Yes, but I assume you will be letting the gravity drop to around 1011 or lower first
Do you batch prime with normal table sugar ? 1.5 vols carbonation? It's the cheapest option and works just as well
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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by hambrook » Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:27 pm

Will it drop to 1011 with all that lactose in? I read it stays around 1020?

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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by Jimmy321 » Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:49 pm

I would think it will be finished at 1.020

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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by hambrook » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:24 pm

Well 12 days in the fermenter and the last 5 days sat at 1018/1019 and I've decided to crash cool to 3 degrees for a couple of days ahead of bottling. It appears the Beersmith programme / app has no way of taking Lactose into account when calculating Final Gravity....
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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by D4nny74 » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:41 pm

Did a Milk stout myself , stopped at 1.019, bottled and now conditioning till christmas :-)

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Re: Milk Stout Finishing

Post by hambrook » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:52 pm

JUST found the setting in BeerSmith - Double click on the Lactose and tick 'Not fermentable' and you get close to actual FG.... why they didn't mark this in the default ingredients list
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