Help me create a stout recipe.

[redarmy990]

Happy holiday weekend all,

I was bought some malts as a gift and want to produce a stout- Done them before but some of these ingridients i havent used

Here goes

I have a 55lb sack Briess pale ale malt- I thinks there's around 40lbs left( this is over a year and a half old and has been kept in a airtight container .

5lb flaked oats
1lb viking chocolate light malt
1lb Carafa special type 1 Weyermann
1lb viking roasted barley
1lb viking dark chocolate

0.5lb brown malt
0.5lb midnight wheat
0.5lb special B
0.5LB honey malt

Can definitely get a great stout I believe. I have never used midnight wheat but with what I have read it doesn't really impart anything except color.( maybe I'm wrong)

This will be a 5 gallon batch and can either brew it on a mash and boil or on my new electric 20 gallon 3 kettle system ( in theory i could do 10 gallon but just trying to get my recipe game going so smaller 5 gallon would be prefered

 

[redarmy990]

Untitled Recipe Ingredients

Amt​	Name​	Type​	#​	%/IBU​	Volume​
10 lbs​	Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)​	Grain​	1​	71.4 %​	0.78 gal​
2 lbs​	Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM)​	Grain​	2​	14.3 %​	0.16 gal​
1 lbs​	Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM)​	Grain​	3​	7.1 %​	0.08 gal​
8.0 oz​	Special B Malt (180.0 SRM)​	Grain​	4​	3.6 %​	0.04 gal​
8.0 oz​	Wheat Malt, Dark (9.0 SRM)​	Grain​	5​	3.6 %​	0.04 gal​
2.00 oz​	Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min​	Hop​	6​	32.2 IBUs​	-​
1.0 pkg​	Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml​

 

[redarmy990]

Untitled Recipe Ingredients

Amt​	Name​	Type​	#​	%/IBU​	Volume​
10 lbs​	Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)​	Grain​	1​	71.4 %​	0.78 gal​
2 lbs​	Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM)​	Grain​	2​	14.3 %​	0.16 gal​
1 lbs​	Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM)​	Grain​	3​	7.1 %​	0.08 gal​
8.0 oz​	Special B Malt (180.0 SRM)​	Grain​	4​	3.6 %​	0.04 gal​
8.0 oz​	Wheat Malt, Dark (9.0 SRM)​	Grain​	5​	3.6 %​	0.04 gal​
2.00 oz​	Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min​	Hop​	6​	32.2 IBUs​	-​
1.0 pkg​	Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [50.28 ml​

Maybe something like this, maybe too much flaked oats

 

[Bramling Cross]

A straight ahead stout recipe from that ingredient list would be Pale Ale malt to your desired gravity and the pound of roast barley followed by a single charge of bittering hops at 60.

You could also dilute the roast barley with a fraction of chocholate malt. If you want to get fancy with the flaked oats, pop them on a cookie sheet and toast them in the oven until they smell like oatmeal cookies. It's a great trick.

I see you're using Cascades. You can steal a move from Rogue's Shakespeare Stout and pop an ounce or two of Cascades at the 5min mark.

 

[redarmy990]

I stuck cascade in there but hops can be changed up, I have around 8lb of hops of different varieties, Citra, sabro , cascade ,centennial and a couple more which I cant remember without raiding the freezer

 

[Bramling Cross]

I wouldn't use anything fancy for the 60min addition, you're just after IBUs. Magnum, Challenger, Target, anything with big, cheap IBUs.

 

[Dgallo]

here is my plans always for building stouts;

Grain Bill
Base Malt (75% target):
Roasted Grains (10-12% target):
Mid-dark crystal / specialty malts (5-7% target):
Body Building grains (6-8%)

*** edited *** I now realize the initial post was a list of on hand ingredients, not a recipe

 

[Jag75]

here is my plans always for building stouts;

Grain Bill
Base Malt (75% target):
Roasted Grains (10-12% target):
Mid-dark crystal / specialty malts (5-7% target):
Body Building (6-8%)

*** edited *** I now realize the initial post was a list of on hand ingredients, not a recipe

Man you lost me at body building

 

[Dgallo]

Man you lost me at body building

Lol gotta keep the BMI down on stouts

 

[Gnomebrewer]

Dry/Irish stout? Russian Imperial Stout? Milk/Sweet stout?

What are you targeting? They are all very different beers.

 

[Dgallo]

Dry/Irish stout? Russian Imperial Stout? Milk/Sweet stout?

What are you targeting? They are all very different beers.

Agreed. I could be wrong always assuming when someone talking about just a “stout” they mean an American or imperial

 

[redarmy990]

American, was hoping to incorporate the pale chocolate and the midnight wheat as I have never used them but not sure what they would give me and how much different they would be than normal dark chocolate

 

[Dgallo]

American, was hoping to incorporate the pale chocolate and the midnight wheat as I have never used them but not sure what they would give me and how much different they would be than normal dark chocolate

I love midnight wheat. Smooth roasted character without being burnt and helps aid in head retention. Pale chocolate I don’t tend to use because I feel I get better chocolate notes from carafa special.

I bet 8% midnight wheat and 4% pale chocolate would work well together

 

[bwible]

*** edited *** I now realize the initial post was a list of on hand ingredients, not a recipe

I did the same thing