Let's hear your "crazy stout" ideas!

[Walker]

Cabbage Sardine Stout.

Yeah... throw some mustard seeds in the mash, too!

 

[remilard]

Black lagers: Schwarzbier, Baltic Porter (usually)

I see what you're saying, though.

Also munich dunkle, franconian dunkle, black czech lagers, dark american lager and tropical stout (usually).

Either way the tropical stouts are actually stout lagers but they have almost no roasted malt. To me they are basically a big baltic porter that is darker. I think Lion and Dragon are both lagers, don't quote me on that.

 

[SumnerH]

I did ancho/guajillo, cinnamon, cocoa, and vanilla bean. I thought it turned out really well. I like the lower heat peppers because you can add enough to get pepper flavor in addition to a bit of burn.

I just bottled my attempt at a Mexican Imperial Stout, based on your recipe (thanks for that--also thanks to Hunahpu's for inspiration), yesterday. I went with the 3 low-heat mole poblano peppers (ancho, pasilla, mulato); I was leaning toward all ancho/pasilla as Cigar City does, but didn't have quite enough on hand so I filled it out with mulato. It's obviously not carbed yet, but the samples taste really good--there's a nice pepper flavor with some low heat, but it's not obviously a chili-centric beer.

To the 4.75 gallon batch's secondary I added:

1.2 oz anchos
.8 oz pasilla
.5 oz mulato
(Weights are after de-stemming and de-seeding)
2 vanilla beans, split and scraped out (bean, innards and all added)
3 oz cocoa
5.5 grams cinnamon

Base beer:
68% marris otter
11% flaked oats
7% UK chocolate malt
7% roast barley
4% carafa II
3% Crystal 120
OG 1.103 FG 1.031
Fuggles to 45 IBU (3.75 @60min, .75@15 min, .5@1 min)
Safale US-05
4 weeks primary, 2 weeks secondary on the additions listed above, bottle (carb to 2.1 volumes).

 

[ChillyP]

Yeah... throw some mustard seeds in the mash, too!

That sounds good.

 

[KingBrianI]

3 words:

Mint Chocolate Stout!

 

[zman]

I did the Stout Butt in Radical Brewing.
#15 Brown Malt
#2.5 6 Row
5oz of Fuggles

It was the second worst mash/sparge I ever had. It looks like it is coming along. I might turn it into a Bourbon Vanilla Stout

 

[billc68]

Also munich dunkle, franconian dunkle, black czech lagers, dark american lager and tropical stout (usually).

Either way the tropical stouts are actually stout lagers but they have almost no roasted malt. To me they are basically a big baltic porter that is darker. I think Lion and Dragon are both lagers, don't quote me on that.

And when I Googled Black Lager, I see Guinness tried one as well. Not sure what came of it, it was for Ireland only at the time.

 

[Revvy]

3 words:

Mint Chocolate Stout!

6 words, "Girlscout Cookie Style Mint Chocolate Stout."

Using real girlscouts...er I meant real girlscout mint chocolate cookies.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

How about "Dry".

I know. The INSANITY of such an idea.

What will the neighbors think?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

6Using real girlscouts...

Well, that's one way to get body in your beer.

 

[Revvy]

How about "Dry".

I know. The INSANITY of such an idea.

What will the neighbors think?

Now one COULD argue that in light of this era of extreme brewing, a nice, simply dry stout IS a crazy idea.

I am drinking Moylan's Dragoon Dry Irish Stout as we post.

 

[barely]

Five pages in and nobody has mentioned Oyster Stout?

 

[Mahanoy]

I just brewed what I'm calling a "Nutella Stout" - a sweet stout base with cocoa powder, then aged on cacao nibs and bottled with hazelnut extract. It's only been in the fermenter two days and I'm already antsy to get to drinking it!

 

[martinirish]

I brewed 5.3 gallons (20 L) of Irish coffee imperial stout with lactose, coffee and a bottle (26-oz) of Jameson whiskey. It came out quite well.

 

[StrangeBrews]

Orange Chocolate Stout

 

[dwarven_stout]

Well, that's one way to get body in your beer.

Oof.

 

[hbomb]

One of my favorite coffee drinks has both chocolate and cayenne and it's delicious...maybe the chocolate-habanero or mole stout, but add a little coffee?

 

[choptop]

I've been thinking about trying a chocolate persimmon stout. Persimmon pudding is one of my favorite southern foods.

 

[SumnerH]

Five pages in and nobody has mentioned Oyster Stout?

Oyster stouts are a pretty common brew--a number of Irish bars in this area have one, and BJCP lists commercial examples as typical of the sweet stout category. I wouldn't classify them as crazy.

Sam Adams makes a pretty good one for Wellfleet every year. Harpoon's is decent. Rogue's Oyster Cloyster was really good, but they stopped making it.

(If you find yourself in the greater DC area, Fordham Brewery in Annapolis has a really nice one on tap; Gaffney's in Arlington used to have a pretty good one, too, but it had gone downhill last time I tried it)

 

[whatsleftofyou]

How about "Dry".

I know. The INSANITY of such an idea.

What will the neighbors think?

Funny you should mention that...last year someone entered a straight-up dry stout and it was damn good, probably a 40 point beer. Since the scoresheet awards points for creativity though, it got hammered at the end.

 

[buenaventura]

Cardamom stout

Ok . . . I've got to know how this turned out. Not only that, but I'd like to know how much cardamom was used and when it was added and in what form . . .

I'm scheming on a Turkish Coffee Stout . . .

 

[whatsleftofyou]

I wasn't digging it, but I'm not a huge cardamom fan. It was too much. Not my beer, so I don't have the recipe for you.

 

[buenaventura]

I wasn't digging it, but I'm not a huge cardamom fan. It was too much. Not my beer, so I don't have the recipe for you.

No problemo . . .

I'll just have to do a 'sperment.

 

[stalkingsamurai]

I'm trying to work out a Pumpkin Imperial Stout

 

[JLem]

I'm trying to work out a Pumpkin Imperial Stout

If you can get your hands on it, try Cape Ann Brewing Co's Fisherman Pumpkin Stout. Not an imperial stout, but I thought it was very good. You might be close enough to find it in your area.

 

[BSBrewer]

I just recently brewed an Oatmeal Craisin Cookie & Milk Stout...came out awesome!

 

[moxie]

I did a pumpkin oatmeal stout a few months ago. It turned out pretty good, but if I were to brew it again, I will skip the clove all together.

 

[JorgeIsKing]

How about an Irish Coffee Stout

 

[cheezydemon3]

All dark malts being dark roasted wheat.

 

[pigdog]

I recently brewed a Sam Smith oatmeal stout clone, partial extract. I steeped the grains in about 2 1/2 gallons of fresh coconut water, the contents of 10 coconuts that I took from a tree at work.
I took a gravity reading of the water straight out of the coconut, pre boil, it was 1.025. It's at 7 days in primary and is still going nuts in there. I don't expect any coconut flavor as the water from a green coconut tastes like sugar water. Maybe sweet? Maybe higher ABV? Interested to see if it comes out good, or a wasted SSOS recipe! Fingers crossed...