Gotta make a brew with Yoo Hoo...

[steveh01420]

So I need some help, not the psychiatric kind yet. The homebrew club that I am in, Fitchburg Order of Ale Makers, is having a brewing contest using a specific ingredient picked from a hat to brew a beer. All of us put two ingredients in then picked one out. My ingredient for the contest is Yoo Hoo. Do you guys know of anybody out there trying to ferment with chocolate milk. Does anyone know if there are any preservatives in Yoo Hoo that will stop the yeast from fermenting? One thought I have had is to make a milk wine and a milk liqueur using Yoo Hoo. I got that idea from a couple of threads here on milk, the one below was very good. That should get me past the kurding problem because I will seperate kurds from the liquid. Then it is a matter it is a matter of what beer to put it with. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/milk-wine-46969/index3.html

 

[PhelanKA7]

I would just tell them that I am allergic to milk and let me pick another ingredient... Yoohoo? Blech. If you wanna do it for the challenge then by all means go for it, but I'm at a loss for sure.

 

[Xpertskir]

Dairy and beer making do not go together. You should have drawn from the hat again and promptly kicked the member who wrote the suggestion out of the club.

 

[PhelanKA7]

...and promptly kicked the member who wrote the suggestion out of the club.

And in the balls while you're at it. Yoohoo is just mean-spirited.

 

[steveh01420]

I like both of your ideas, but I don't think they will own up to it. I am going give a shot for the challenge. Also everyone in the club will have to drink it to judge it, so that maybe that will teach him. The ingredient could have been Mountain Oysters.

 

[Thegreatestgray]

I like both of your ideas, but I don't think they will own up to it. I am goig give a shot for the challenge. Also everyone in the club will have to drink it to judge it, so that maybe that will teach him. The ingredient could have been Mountain Oysters.

There is a commercial beer that has rocky mountain oysters their motto is two balls per barrel. Anyway I think a porter or a stout would be your best bet with yahoo. if you could use the powdered yahoo then you could rack on top of that and make a chocolate porter I'm not sure what the dried milk would do to the beer

 

[241]

Could you maybe boil it down with priming sugar and add into your bottling bucket? Might be ok with a chocolate stout. Sounds fun

 

[Ostomo517]

I think chocolate and lactose in a stout would be a good place to start. Maybe research Terrapins Moo Hoo if you can get it.

 

[bphelan]

Depending on the "rules" of the contest, you could probably make a milk stout and use something like Nesquick or Ovaltine to get that fake chocolate taste. No one will be the wiser that you didn't actually use Yoo-hoo.

 

[Mongrel]

Dairy and beer making do not go together. You should have drawn from the hat again and promptly kicked the member who wrote the suggestion out of the club.

Yoo-hoo has more partially hydrogenated soybean oil in it than milk product, not saying that's good for brewing either, but there's not a whole lot of milk product in there.

 

[steveh01420]

Yoo-hoo has more partially hydrogenated soybean oil in it than milk product, not saying that's good for brewing either, but there's not a whole lot of milk product in there.

That sounds promising. I sent an email to Yoo Hoo asking about that, we'll see if I get an answer. No Terrapin up here but I am going to find some milk stouts that sounds like a good idea for research. Might try a bock also Sam Adams made a Chocolate Bock for Christmas that was pretty good. I will use the Yoo Hoo the rules did not say how much though.

 

[Idrum6969]

Yoo Hoo is far from a chocolate milk. I just checked out the ingredients...... I use to love these things as a kid. LOL....... I am not sure how well it would ferment. I guess it would possible to use this in a beer at any stage of the process but it has the potential to turn out kinda funky. Sounds like a challenge.

 

[JRems]

Yoohoo doesn't have much milk. It's more like water. I think a nice chocolate stout is in order. I think you will be fine if you add 8 oz right before flameout. It's not like it needs refrigeration so I doubt it would get rancid.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I would see how well it boils down first. Maybe you can make a Hoo concentrate and if that does not kill the stuff you can possibly Dry Hoo with it. Might also allow you to skim the scum off the top too. I would play with the ingredient a little and see what you can do with it now that you have a few ideas as to which direction you can head for style.

 

[steveh01420]

I would play with the ingredient a little and see what you can do with it now that you have a few ideas as to which direction you can head for style.

Yes to that, I will make up some small batches and see what happens. I like the idea of a Sweet Stout as a base, I'll brew a batch pull some off without the Yoo Hoo for blending later, then boil some in the rest for ten minutes. I'm also thinking about concentrating a gallon of it like DrunkleJon says and then pitching some yeast on that. I will use the same English Ale yeast on all of them from one starter. That will keep me busy.
I want to thank all of you for your input and help.:rockin: I will keep track and post the results. The folks at work are going to be my guinea pigs...

 

[DrunkleJon]

...a Hoo-Ya! Stout.

or if it does not end well a Hoo-YARRGH!

 

[homebrewdad]

I would see how well it boils down first. Maybe you can make a Hoo concentrate and if that does not kill the stuff you can possibly Dry Hoo with it. Might also allow you to skim the scum off the top too. I would play with the ingredient a little and see what you can do with it now that you have a few ideas as to which direction you can head for style.

Hoo concentrate? Dry Hoo? ROFL!

 

[Thegreatestgray]

Did you ever figure out how to use yahoo in a brew

 

[steveh01420]

Yes I did. I made a batch of stout and split it in three parts. Before I boil the wort I took 1/2 gallon out and made up a Milk Wine with it like the Alsakan Bootlegger's recipe. My recipe was 1/2 gallon stout wort, one cup of honey boiled for about 15 minutes and then added a 15 ounce bottle of YooHoo, the OG was 1.081. After I boiled the wort I took a gallon out and added 2 ounces of YooHoo, OG 1.052. The rest of it as a sweet stout also 1.052. I did keep the hops low to get the chocolate flavor. I bottled this past Sunday. The Stout with the YooHoo did not have much a chocolate flavor FG 1.015. The stout finished at 1.014. The Milk Wine finished at 1.007 and tasted great, I will make that again as a chocolate wine. So I mixed up the Yoohoo stout with the milk wine at 50/50 for a gravity of 1.010, it tasted good just like a chocolate stout. So I will check a bottle at the end of the month and see. So far so good not as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[steveh01420]

Well we had the competition last night and my Double X Stout "made with real Yoo Hoo" came in first. We had nine entries and judged each others brews, they were all great and strong. One beer was at 5.5% the rest were between 8 and 10 %, they will need to age for a while.
The different Brews and their ingredients were:
Dopple Bock with Chocolate Nibs
Irish Red with Brown Sugar(6 pounds)
St. Bernardus Prior 8 clone with Figs (70 ounces) 3rd place
Belgian brown with Raisins
Nieuw Bruin met Kersen with Lactose
Belgian Triple with Citra Hops
Double X Stout with Yoo Hoo 1st place
A Pale Ale with White Chocolate (washed with Everclear) 2nd place
Hawaiian Porter with Sour Patch Kids
After we exchanged two bottles apiece, a good deal in the end. The whole point of this comp was to brew with something you might never consider which worked out great. Next time we do this we will have two drawings one for new brewers and one for the more adventurous. A few people backed out because they simple ingredients like brown sugar, cucumber or honey.
Here is the recipe for the Yoo Hoo I will brew this again. Thanks again for the input.

Double X Stout with Yoo Hoo
Volume: 5.50 gallons
Estimated Original Gravity: 1.086
Estimated Final Gravity: 1.020
Estimated Alcohol% (ABV): 8.60
Estimated Bitternes (IBU): 33.43
CO2 Level (vols): 2.20
Style: Foreign Extra Stout
Ingredients:
2 Row Brewers (80.50% ) 7.00 lbs
Black (70.00% ) 0.375 lbs
Carafa III (70.00% ) 0.50 lbs
Caramel/Crystal 60 (70.00%) 2.00 lbs
Chocolate (73.00% ) 0.375 lbs
Wheat , White (86.00%) 2.50 lbs
Honey (92.00% ) 2.00 lbs Add at knockout
Yoo Hoo (15.5 oz bottles) 5.00 Add at knockout

Hops
Northern Brewer (8.60% ) 1.00 oz Boil for 60.00 min
Northern Brewer (8.60% ) 0.50 oz Boil for 30.00 min
Northern Brewer (8.60% ) 0.50 oz Boil for 10.00 min
Yeast
WLP001 - California Ale (80% ) ½ gallon starter
Mashing/Batch Sparge
Mashed at 156 degrees for 60.00 minutes. I wanted it to come out sweet from the malt, figured the honey would kick up alcohol.

Ferment at 68 degrees.
End fermentation at 68 degrees after 14 days primary.
14 days secondary
Primed with one bottle of Yoo Hoo (1.32 oz sugar + 2 oz priming sugar)