Alrightly, got to make a trip to the HBS this weekend to buy hops for dryhopping Walker's IPA, might as well pick up ingredients for the next brew while I'm there.
Thinking about doing a mocha-flavored stout, so I'm looking for a good base stout recipe that I can start with and modify with some chocolate and some coffee. I'd love to deflower my lauter tun, so ideal would be something that I can do as a partial mash. I'm also reviewing the best approaches to adding the chocolate and coffee to the mix; any suggestions would be appreciated (a little vanilla is one trick that I know of from cooking).
Now, because of those two flavors, seems as though I want to add a little bit of extra sweetness to the brew somehow. With maltose do the trick, or is that going to just add body (not a bad thing) without much sweetness? Are there other things to add to help bring out the other flavors?
Much thanks in advance for all the help!
Thinking about doing a mocha-flavored stout, so I'm looking for a good base stout recipe that I can start with and modify with some chocolate and some coffee. I'd love to deflower my lauter tun, so ideal would be something that I can do as a partial mash. I'm also reviewing the best approaches to adding the chocolate and coffee to the mix; any suggestions would be appreciated (a little vanilla is one trick that I know of from cooking).
Now, because of those two flavors, seems as though I want to add a little bit of extra sweetness to the brew somehow. With maltose do the trick, or is that going to just add body (not a bad thing) without much sweetness? Are there other things to add to help bring out the other flavors?
Much thanks in advance for all the help!