WFox93
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I've embarked on an adventure for my first big stout. I wanted to have some fun with it though, so I developed a recipe for a root beer float stout.
Root beer to me has always tasted caramelly and slightly herbal so I aimed for lots of crystal 60L for my caramel, a bit of chocolate malt and roasted barley mainly for color but a touch of flavor. To really drive home the root beer flavor I'm adding sassafras chips to my secondary. Now on the float side of things, to me the best root beer floats are thick, creamy and sweet. Call me crazy, but I put half a pound of lactose sugar in a 2 gallon batch. To solidify the fact that, yes this is a sipable rootbeeer float that's actually beer, I'm soaking a Tahitian vanilla bean in Disaronno for a week and adding that to the secondary as well. It'll stay in the the secondary on top of the additives for a week before bottling.
My starting gravity for this came out to 1.073, so really not that big but this stuff poured like oil and I'm super excited for it to be done. If it ends up tasting good, I'll go ahead and post up the recipe if I get much interest in this. If not, will be back to ask for suggestions lol.
Meh, You guys seem interested enough. Edited for recipe:
*2 Gallon Recipe All Grain*
3 lbs - 2-Row
1 lbs - Crystal 60L
.5 lbs - Carapils (Dextrine)
.75 lbs - Roasted Barley
.75 lbs - Chocolate Malt
.5 lbs - Lactose Sugar
.5 oz Cluster Hops
.5 oz Fuggles Hops
Safale - s-04 or us-05 yeast
1/2 Whirflock tablet
Sasafrass and 1 vanilla bean
-Standard Mash procedure, Sparge to 3 gal
-- This refers to my personal files, 1qt of water per pound of grain preheated at 180 and allowed to cool to 170 in the tun while adding grains.
60 minute boil
add .25 oz Cluster hops at 30 minutes
add .25 oz cluster hops and whirflock at 45 minutes (15 minutes from previous add)
add .5 oz Fuggle hops at 50 minutes (5 minutes from previous add)
My plan is two weeks in the primary fermenter then rack ontop of the sassafras and vanilla for a week, no finings because its pitch black. Then bottle age for 2-4 weeks, May try to stash a bottle or two away for next winter too.
Root beer to me has always tasted caramelly and slightly herbal so I aimed for lots of crystal 60L for my caramel, a bit of chocolate malt and roasted barley mainly for color but a touch of flavor. To really drive home the root beer flavor I'm adding sassafras chips to my secondary. Now on the float side of things, to me the best root beer floats are thick, creamy and sweet. Call me crazy, but I put half a pound of lactose sugar in a 2 gallon batch. To solidify the fact that, yes this is a sipable rootbeeer float that's actually beer, I'm soaking a Tahitian vanilla bean in Disaronno for a week and adding that to the secondary as well. It'll stay in the the secondary on top of the additives for a week before bottling.
My starting gravity for this came out to 1.073, so really not that big but this stuff poured like oil and I'm super excited for it to be done. If it ends up tasting good, I'll go ahead and post up the recipe if I get much interest in this. If not, will be back to ask for suggestions lol.
Meh, You guys seem interested enough. Edited for recipe:
*2 Gallon Recipe All Grain*
3 lbs - 2-Row
1 lbs - Crystal 60L
.5 lbs - Carapils (Dextrine)
.75 lbs - Roasted Barley
.75 lbs - Chocolate Malt
.5 lbs - Lactose Sugar
.5 oz Cluster Hops
.5 oz Fuggles Hops
Safale - s-04 or us-05 yeast
1/2 Whirflock tablet
Sasafrass and 1 vanilla bean
-Standard Mash procedure, Sparge to 3 gal
-- This refers to my personal files, 1qt of water per pound of grain preheated at 180 and allowed to cool to 170 in the tun while adding grains.
60 minute boil
add .25 oz Cluster hops at 30 minutes
add .25 oz cluster hops and whirflock at 45 minutes (15 minutes from previous add)
add .5 oz Fuggle hops at 50 minutes (5 minutes from previous add)
My plan is two weeks in the primary fermenter then rack ontop of the sassafras and vanilla for a week, no finings because its pitch black. Then bottle age for 2-4 weeks, May try to stash a bottle or two away for next winter too.
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