Peanut Butter Porter W/Powdered Peanut Butter

Did you think the 2 cans (I assume you used the 6.5oz cans not the 1lb cans) provided enough PB flavor? Could you detect any chocolate with only 8oz of nibs?

CrystalShip said:

So I made a classic stout (pale malt, flaked, roast, 4.7%) and decided to spice it up a bit at the last second. I thought about doing the vodka thing, but I don't have the patience (or the vodka either). I decided just to throw two cans of pb2 into secondary along with 8oz of cacao nibs. I have had lots of success with cacao nibs in the past, but have never tried peanuts. I'll let you know how it turns out!

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So, what happened CrystalShip?

I added 1lb of powdered pb the last couple of minutes of a boil for a 10g batch of brown porter. I split the batch into two 5g carboys and left one alone. The other one fermented for a week, I then boiled a bit of water and added 1lb of chocolate pb powder to that, then into a carboy, and racked 5g on top for a week.

The first one had a nice roasted flavor but you wouldn't be able to tell it was pb, it did make the brown porter more nutty/roasty but it tasted like it was done through malt. The second one definitely had a pb aroma and flavor. It started fading after about 3-4 weeks. People really liked it, I wanted more pb out of it. I don't think the brown porter was the best recipe to use, maybe just a regular porter or stout. Next time I'll use 1lb per 5g last few minutes of the boil, then 1lb of just pb not chocolate pb into the secondary.

I brewed something similar to this three weeks ago:

6.5# Maris Otter
1.0# Flaked Oats
.75# Crystal 80
.75# Pale Chocolate Malt (220)
.50# Chocolate Malt (420)
1.0oz Fuggles @ 60
0.5oz Fuggles @ 30
0.5oz Fuggles @ 15
Nottingham Yeast

For the peanut butter I used 13oz (2 pb2 containers) and started slowly adding it with 7 minutes to go in the boil. I added the last bit around 3 minutes to go. I went with this method to control the foaming.

It came out pretty good. The peanut butter is definitely detectable but not overpowering. I'm serving this on nitro so it has a smooth creamy peanut butter flavor to it right now. Enjoyable, I would make it again.

Has anyone tried to mix powdered peanut butter with the all natural peanut butter in to something like a paste ??

I am bottling something very close to this tomorrow. I can't wait to taste it. I did one jar instead of two for the dehydrated peanut butter. The whole time it has been in the secondary I have been asking myself if I should have done two jars.

I used a smoked porter recipe to add the peanut butter too. I was thinking of a smoked reese's peanut butter cup when I made it.

One other difference I had from the original recipe is I added the peanut butter at the end of the boil.

Interested to see what yeast strains have been used with success on a beer like this. Would it be better to use a clean, chico type ale strain to minimize any yeast flavors detracting from the PB/Chocolate flavors, or is an english yeast, maybe 002 to attenuate a little lower and leave a little residual sweetness and some subtle fruit/diacetyl character suitable?

zero1d said:

Interested to see what yeast strains have been used with success on a beer like this. Would it be better to use a clean, chico type ale strain to minimize any yeast flavors detracting from the PB/Chocolate flavors, or is an english yeast, maybe 002 to attenuate a little lower and leave a little residual sweetness and some subtle fruit/diacetyl character suitable?

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I was wondering the same thing. I'm doing an amped up version of billym99's recipe above with 1.072og. Was leaning towards S04 or nottingham if anyone has any input about it

billym99 said:

I brewed something similar to this three weeks ago:

6.5# Maris Otter
1.0# Flaked Oats
.75# Crystal 80
.75# Pale Chocolate Malt (220)
.50# Chocolate Malt (420)
1.0oz Fuggles @ 60
0.5oz Fuggles @ 30
0.5oz Fuggles @ 15
Nottingham Yeast

For the peanut butter I used 13oz (2 pb2 containers) and started slowly adding it with 7 minutes to go in the boil. I added the last bit around 3 minutes to go. I went with this method to control the foaming.

It came out pretty good. The peanut butter is definitely detectable but not overpowering. I'm serving this on nitro so it has a smooth creamy peanut butter flavor to it right now. Enjoyable, I would make it again.

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wowww!!
amazing!

Is this a 10gal recipe?