Cinnamon sticks...how much is too much?

[Dgallo]

Looking for some advice from folks who use cinnamon relatively often in their browns, porters, or stouts to provide some advice.

I do a rotating imperial milk stout series and for this batch I’m aiming for a Mexican Hot Chocolate/latte flavor profile using vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, coffee, and cinnamon. I’m very familiar brewing with the first 3 but cinnamon I’ve only used 2 times—a pumpkin ale and winter warmer—both very early on in my brewing (probably 5 years ago). I’m going to make a 4 oz tincture with 2 vanilla beans and the plan is two cinnamon sticks (the short, tight sticks).
Does this sound reasonable or should I drop it to 1?

Fwiw, I am not looking for cinnamon to take over, just for it to play a firm supportive role

 

[WestMalagaBeerCo]

Kegged a Christmas Stout last week. Added coco nibs, Hazelnut and 2 cinnamon sticks. It turned out great, not exactly what I was shooting for but my wife really likes it. I am my harshest critic. The cinnamon is very pronounced, definitely will cut back to one next time. Hope this helps!

 

[Dgallo]

Kegged a Christmas Stout last week. Added coco nibs, Hazelnut and 2 cinnamon sticks. It turned out great, not exactly what I was shooting for but my wife really likes it. I am my harshest critic. The cinnamon is very pronounced, definitely will cut back to one next time. Hope this helps!

Thanks brother. That’s the exact type of info I was looking for!

 

[bobeer]

I've only dropped 2-3 sticks in the last 5 minutes or so in the boil for a christmas beer I do just about every year (except this year!) I've never made an tincture from the sticks so I'm interested to hear how this turns out.

 

[OldDogBrewing]

Thanks brother. That’s the exact type of info I was looking for!

I used half stick to "dry spice" my Christmas quad together with some other spices, it was a 1 gallon batch and I would say it was on point, it wasn't noticeable in the sense that you could pick which spices were in there, but it certainly added to the overall flavour


EDIT: I crushed all the spices before adding them