Flyer

Recipes 

5 lbs Dark Extract (Liquid)
2 lbs Pale Extract (Liquid)
1/2 lbs Malto Dextrin

3/4 lbs Chocolate grains (steeped)
1/4 lbs Crystal 40L (steeped)
1/8 lbs Black Barley (stepped)
1/8 lbs Black Patent (steeped)

1 oz Galena (60 mins)

White Labs London Ale WLP013

At bottling, 1oz Unsweetened Baking Cocoa

I want to know what you think I should expect from this ...

joeyuwp

Recipes 

Dark

__________________
Primary - Empty
Secondary #1 - Patersbier
Secondary #2 - Empty
Bottled - Peanut Butter Pecan Porter, Strawberry Honey Wheat, Marzen, Brown
Forthcoming - Lemon/Lime Hefe

ScottT

Recipes 

It's going to be a black chocolate porter. Almost a stout.

__________________
Scott

Primary: Empty

Secondary #2: Empty

Bottle Conditioning: Oatmeal Stout

Drinking from Keg: Ordinary Bitter, Kolsch

Drinking bottled: Brown Autumn Wee Heavy
Hefe Weizen
Peaches and Cream Weizen


"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!"
-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck.
Next up: Hefe Weizen

Flyer

Recipes 

It is dark .. very dark. Looked like mud in the bottom of the primay after racking to secondary.

What kind of flavor do ya'll think it will have?

brackbrew

Recipes 

With all that dark grain, what's the use of the crystal malt in there? Sounds like it's got potential, nonetheless. Good luck!

OtherWhiteMeat

Recipes 

warm it up and youll have coffee

__________________
Still a newb, but im brewin' myself through it!

Up next:
Primary:
Bottled: Franziskaner Hefeweizen
Bottled: Light American Pale Ale
Bottled: Newcastle clone
Bottled: Light Honey Ale
Bottled: Apple Cider (Tastes more like sweet wine)
Bottled: Apricot Ale(finished)

JOHN51277

Recipes 

Sounds nice and tasty, very dark, mix it with some ice cream for a mudslide.
I would like to make a dark as he!! beer soon, I just started brewing a few months ago. Hope it turns out great.

__________________
My Cigar Forum www.cigarhops.com
PM me for access.

On Deck: Centennial Blonde, Midnight IIPA
Primary: SMaSH Citra/2 Row, KBS Clone
Secondary: ???
Kegged:
Bottled: Gulf Oil Spill Stout, Breakfast Stout, Amarillo SMaSH, Orange Wit, RIPA Oak/Bourbon Aged, Barleywine, Apfelwein,

Flyer

Recipes 

Same boat as you John ... I'm still trying to get one that has a good taste to it. I've got a Vanilla Porter in bottles now, but it won't be ready for a while. My first batch was pretty bad.

This one was the 3rd. I just put it in the secondary last night.

I was hoping for a little more detailed idea on how it would come out so I can have an idea what it should be like.

david_42

Recipes 

It's tough to give an accurate idea of how a brew will turn out if you've never done it before yourself. Buying clone kits is a very good way to test your brewing process, you'll know exactly how they should turn out. Write your own early on and you'll get some odd results. (see other posts for what 4 lbs of rye will do to a mash)

Here's my input

5 lbs Dark Extract (Liquid)
2 lbs Pale Extract (Liquid)
1/2 lbs Malto Dextrin

Should be dark, full bodied.

3/4 lbs Chocolate grains (steeped)
1/4 lbs Crystal 40L (steeped)

Very dark, bittersweet chocolate, roasted barley and caramel flavors.

1/8 lbs Black Barley (stepped)
1/8 lbs Black Patent (steeped)

Coffee overtones and dark, really dark.

1 oz Galena (60 mins)

Moderate bitterness, probably not enough to balance the ABV. No hop aroma, little hop flavor.

Call it an Imperial Stout.

Never had much luck with adding chocolate in any form to an ale. I think it just settles out.

__________________
Remember one unassailable statistic, as explained by the late, great George Carlin: "Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

Flyer

Recipes 

Cool .. that's kinda what I was looking for. I know it's difficult to predict a recipe. It's not one I just came up with though. It's actually a kit labeled 'Double Chocolate Stout'.