gnuworldorder
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so me and a friend use to brew together but now we found other friends to brew with and we were thinking about doing a brewoff and we settled on using a midwest stout kid. before we did an outmeal stout and added a pound of cocoa powder and 2oz of mint leaves with 5 minutes left to the boil then in the secondary fermenter add 1/2 a cup of mint. it turned out pretty decent but was was too much of a bitter chocolate taste. so the logical step is to perfect this since i doubt he would see this coming.
so my question would be coming from an irish stout kit, double the chocolate malt to 8oz, cut the cocoa powder to 4oz since most just precipitated out in the primary, add 4oz of oats like the oatmeal stout kit had and then add maybe 4-8oz of lactose to sweeten it up and keep the mint the same.
in my head i see it working but thats just me wanting to win and we really dont have the time to make a test run first so any help would be nice
so my question would be coming from an irish stout kit, double the chocolate malt to 8oz, cut the cocoa powder to 4oz since most just precipitated out in the primary, add 4oz of oats like the oatmeal stout kit had and then add maybe 4-8oz of lactose to sweeten it up and keep the mint the same.
in my head i see it working but thats just me wanting to win and we really dont have the time to make a test run first so any help would be nice