Biscuit or Biscuit flavor? - Page 2

PHBalanced · 03-15-2011, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Revvy

Everyone's taste buds are different, but to me it tastes like a lightly "toasty" shortbread cookie...Kind of like if you heated up a lorna doone cookie in a dry cast iron pan of just a couple of minutes, not enough to brown it too much (if cookies had an srm. it would be one srm point more than it was out of the package) but just enough to have a maillard reaction happenning.

How much of a grain bill would you use to get this flavor in your opinion? Using Marris Otter as a base. I've got a cookie beer challenge that's been floating in my head.

**Revvy** · 03-15-2011, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by PHBalanced

How much of a grain bill would you use to get this flavor in your opinion? Using Marris Otter as a base. I've got a cookie beer challenge that's been floating in my head.

Holy threadbumping, I had to re-read the thread to figure out what you were talking about. LOL

I still haven't figured it out. But in my last Marris Otter/Biscuit iteration I did this. Unfortunately since I can't drink for another few weeks I can't tell you how this tastes yet.

From my ginger snap brown ale thread.

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Originally Posted by Revvy

And I am done!!!!!

Got a late start, but everything went well.

Here's the final recipe I ended up with.

5 Gallons.

4# 4oz, Marris Otter
2# 4oz Crystal 60
1.25# Biscuit
3 ounces Flaked oats.
Mashed With.
2-14 ounce boxes Ginger Snaps (I used Kroger brand, but wanted to use Meijer's house brand. Find one that you like the flavor of. Or bake your own.)

Mashed 2.88 gallons @ 154 for 60 minutes.
Sparged 5.75 gallons @ 168

Pre-boil volume 6.5 gallons

1.2 ounces Fuggles @ 60
.64 ounces fuggles @ 15

1.55 OG.

There is definitely a bisquity, crackery/cookie smell to the wort with a definite hint of ginger snap (not just ginger, but baked cookie.) I may have over hopped a tad, but I've noticed that with fuggles, it's pretty overpowering in the wort, so I won't really know til I'm actually drinking it if the hops overpower everything.

PHBalanced · 03-16-2011, 05:40 AM

Thanks for the info Revvy, I'll have to check out the other thread to get the full story. But I have to ask if you mashed the cookies just because you could or if they are really giving that much flavor. How did the wort taste?