Doing a big milk stout. Advice on addition amounts?

[Tippyman]

I'm doing a 9.3% stout with 8 oz. of lactose thrown in at 10 minutes. I'll add stuff during secondary, then transfer to a bourbon barrel to age.

I'm using orange peel, nutmeg, vanilla paste, and cinnamon. I've never added stuff like this to secondary before, and am a little concerned about getting the amounts right. I was told to do the cinnamon and nutmeg last, and not for very long. Anyone have ideas about quantity/time?

Thanks in advance!

 

[mmahu]

No experience with nutmeg and cinnamon, but probably not more than 3-5 days, as they are very aromatic in small quantities, especially the cinnamon. I will however recommend getting Ceylon cinnamon sticks and not the common Cassia cinnamon, which is astringent, powdery, unpleasent. Ceylon cinnamon is the real deal.

I did 4 oz organic, raw cocoa beans and 4 vanilla pods ( i scraped them and cut the pods in smaller bits ) in bourbon whiskey for two days in the fridge, then added the whole content to the fermenter for 7 days. It turned out very nice, although I believe for me, 7 days was too much. This was for a 7.5% Stout / 5.5 gal.

I think next time I will reduce the time to only 4-5 days.

 

[Tippyman]

I got the ceylon sticks and vanilla paste. According to the paste, 1 tablespoon is equal to 1 bean. I think I'll start with 1 tablespoon of paste and 1 oz. of orange peel and taste it after a week. Maybe just keep ramping up the amounts until it's good, then do the cinnamon and nutmeg after. It's all going into a used bourbon barrel after spicing is complete, so it will need a substancial flavor to blend with the bourbon/wood flavor.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

I'll be curious to hear how this turns out. I'm planning a pseudo BBA RIS with vanilla bean and nutmeg.

Tentative plan for five gallons is one bourbon soaked VB in the secondary and 1/4 tsp fresh grated nutmeg the last 5 minutes of the boil. Then I'll taste and add more after a could months with the oak.

 

[Kent88]

Have you made this stout without all the extra stuff yet? You're thinking of making this with about 6 extra flavors, that is a bit over the top, and I just made an oatmeal-cream stout with way more raspberries and cocoa nibs than one usually uses.