First Recipe attempt, overly ambitious?

"White" Chocolate Coffee Milk "Stout"

(not my first brew, just my first off the cuff recipe)

I was listening to the Brewing Network while I was out on a hike and heard about a Tripple Rock Brew called White Chocolate "Stout".

The white is not due to white chocolate, but the fact that they brewed a lighter bodied ale and made it taste more like a stout. I though ti would be a blast to attempt something like that, but I have never put together a recipe on my own before.

So call me crazy, but here was what I was thinking of trying.

5.5 gal batch size

Mash 60 min@150F
9# pale 2 row (probably Colorado)
2# Biscuit Malt
2# Crystal 20

Boil 60 min. No early hop additions
add 1/2# lactose
add 2 oz Zeus @ 5 min and leave in for 30 min whirlpool
add 1gal of brewed coffee @ 5min

Throw in primary with rehydrated S05
Add 4oz nibs at day 4

2 weeks primary and then age in keg for a month

1.065 OG
54.8 IBU
10.6 SRM without the coffee, BeerSmith does not calculate that
Est ABV 6.7%

Dude go for it - and don't let anyone convince you otherwise. It being your first brew, you're likely going to make mistakes that you'll learn more from than listening to a week of BN. And at the end of the day, you'll have made GOOD BEER!

Thanks.

Not my first brew, just the first one where I didn't grab someone else's recipe and adjust for my system. I have never just grabbed ingredients at my whim and threw them together like this.

Similar but more complected grain bill, and maybe a more muddled flavor...?

4oz fuggles at 60 min
4oz Goldings dryhopped, added day 4

1/2# Carafoam, I would probably add this to the other as well
1/2# Lactose
1# Biscuit
1# Malted oats
2# Caramunic
10# Pale 2 row

1.069 og
51.9 IBU
14 SRM
7.4% ABV

Or I could drop the biscuit and caramunic and switch to Maris Otter for the pale.