A milk stout (not left hand)

[Queequeg]

I love a good milk stout and LH make an excellent one, so good its hard to beat, highly drinkable.

However I find myself wanting more, I think this is because when I want a milk stout I actually want a dessert stout and also because I want to brew something that's my own but as good and LH milk stout but in a completely different why.

So I want a dessert like stout, intense chocolate and confectionery. I'm thinking nuts, caramel, dried fruit, honey and again intense chocolate with a big creamy mouth feel.

This is what I have so far

10lb of maris otter
1lb of chocolate rye
0.5lb roast barley
1lb NGO
0.5lb Victory malt
0.5lb Honey malt
0.5lb special B
1lb flaked barley
1lb Lactose
6oz of cocoa powder

Bittering with warrior to 30 IBU's
no flavour/aroma addtions

Mash at 156
Ferment with WLP023
1 tbsp of vanillia extract
chocolate extract to taste.
SG 1.061 FG 1.023

Then Nitro keg.

Thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, ramblings all welcome.

 

[EricTheRedd]

How'd the recipe workout? I've brewed LH milk stout clone in the past and changed it over time. I'm curious how you liked the special b also?

 

[Queequeg]

I have brewed yet, got a Lager and IPA to do first.

Actually think I'm going to drop the chocolate malt and victory and instead use brown malt and boricha. I will probably use crystal 80 instead of honey and NGO.

I will sub the flaked barley for Oats.

So something like

10lb maris otter
1lb boricha
1lb brown malt
1lb crystal 80
0.5 special B
1lb oats
1lb lactose.

I have used special B in a belgin stout and it was very chocolaty but some of that is probably the yeast too.

 

[EricTheRedd]

Nice. Let me know how it turns out [emoji1]