manoaction
Well-Known Member
So I've been trying to better understand recipe formulation to better understand my beer.
My SWMBO loves sticky sweet black stouts and so that is my first attempt.
At first blush it seemed simple enough. Base malt for starters, choco malt for coffee and cocoa flavor, flaked oats for body and sticky "oatness", and Lactose for unfermented sweetness and extra body.
However when I've looked at a few other sweet stouts in recipe bank I'm seeing all kinds of stuff thrown in. One recipe had seven different malts and two kinds of coffee. Another one had white wheat malt in it.
My question is "am I missing something by aiming simple?" Is two ounces of roast barley (1%) going to change my flavor around that much (one recipe called for that)?
What do you think of this for a simple stout to start with?
Batch Size: 5.500 gal
Boil Size: 6.394 gal
Boil Time: 1.000 hr
Efficiency: 65%
OG: 1.065
FG: 1.017
ABV: 6.2%
Bitterness: 21.4 IBUs (Tinseth)
Color: 42 SRM (Morey)
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK Grain 9.000 lb
Oats, Flaked Grain 2.500 lb
Milk Sugar (Lactose) Sugar 1.500 lb
Chocolate Malt (UK) Grain 1.500 lb
Golding 5.0% 1.500 oz 1.000 hr
Wyeast - British Ale
My SWMBO loves sticky sweet black stouts and so that is my first attempt.
At first blush it seemed simple enough. Base malt for starters, choco malt for coffee and cocoa flavor, flaked oats for body and sticky "oatness", and Lactose for unfermented sweetness and extra body.
However when I've looked at a few other sweet stouts in recipe bank I'm seeing all kinds of stuff thrown in. One recipe had seven different malts and two kinds of coffee. Another one had white wheat malt in it.
My question is "am I missing something by aiming simple?" Is two ounces of roast barley (1%) going to change my flavor around that much (one recipe called for that)?
What do you think of this for a simple stout to start with?
Batch Size: 5.500 gal
Boil Size: 6.394 gal
Boil Time: 1.000 hr
Efficiency: 65%
OG: 1.065
FG: 1.017
ABV: 6.2%
Bitterness: 21.4 IBUs (Tinseth)
Color: 42 SRM (Morey)
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK Grain 9.000 lb
Oats, Flaked Grain 2.500 lb
Milk Sugar (Lactose) Sugar 1.500 lb
Chocolate Malt (UK) Grain 1.500 lb
Golding 5.0% 1.500 oz 1.000 hr
Wyeast - British Ale