So I just sampled my second batch of this and made some tweaks from my first stab at it. At this point, it is identical to Dragon's Milk. I tasted it tonight because I just threw in some vanilla beans as I want to make a vanilla varient of Dragon's Milk, so I wanted to have a baseline. Of course, my sample was not carbed, but side by side, the only difference I could detect was the real dragon's milk had carbonation. Even the silky mouth feel was spot on. I will post my recipe below, but more importantly, will brew this many more times.
Grain crush .037"
Mash 158* (1 hour)
Sparge 180* (2.5 hours)
90 min boil
Post boil volume 6.25 gallons
91.5% brewhouse efficiency
O.G 1.113
37 IBU's
14lbs Pale Malt
2.5lbs Munich male
1lb Caramel 80
1lb Caramel 120
1lb Flaked barley
1lb Chocolate Malt
6oz Debittered black malt
1oz glacier (60min)
1lb lactose (15min)
1oz nugget (15 min)
5 liter starter of 1056 pitched at 65* post boil
oxygenate and a packet of US05 at 24 hours.
Primary for 4 weeks
2 medium toast american oak spirals that have been soaking in NH beer barrel bourbon since June. Went into secondary and sat for 5 weeks. No bourbon was added with spirals, just whatever soaked into them.