Peanut Butter Cup Porter - Looking For Quick Critique/Input

[UncleRusty]

Hey Guys, I'm planning on brewing this today in a 5.5 Gallon All-Grain Batch, Mashing in at 156F. Just wanted to see if anyone had any input.

I was wondering if Carapils should count as the total % of Specialty Malt or not? I know that it's roasted like a specialty/caramel malt, but at 2.0SRM it's more like a base malt.

I'm wondering if I could safely add a bit of Pale Chocolate Malt to the Recipe, or would I be getting to close to going over the amount of caramel malts in the recipe? Originally I was going to use Chocolate Malt instead of Carafa I, but that's all my LHBS had and I now realize the flavour profile is a bit less roasted in comparison, so I was thinking of adding some pale to up it. What do you guys think?

5.5 Gallon / All-Grain
Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU
10 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 70.2 %
1 lbs 14.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 13.2 %
15.0 oz Carafa I (337.0 SRM) Grain 3 6.6 %
15.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 4 6.6 %
8.0 oz Black (Patent) Malt (500.0 SRM) Grain 5 3.5 %
0.75 oz Northern Brewer [7.80 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 17.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Willamette [5.30 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 7 9.6 IBUs
2.00 lb PB2 (Boil 10.0 mins) Flavor 8 -
2.00 oz Cacao Nibs (Boil 10.0 mins) Spice 9 -
1.0 pkg London Ale (White Labs #WLP013) [35.49 ml] Yeast 10 -

 

[UncleRusty]

Well, here's an update. The base beer came out excellent, a very roasty, toasty, and coffee-strong tasting porter. Body was less than I expected, but with the heavy biscuit and roasted flavors, it's not actually a bad thing. Peanut Butter Flavor was very minimal, as I ended up only adding 1lb of PB2 to the boil, however last week I did rack it onto 2lbs of PB2 in a secondary. I'll be cold crashing and serving it soon so I'll add another update with pictures then.

 

[dlampen45]

Ive got 2 lbs of pb2 coming in the mail right now to try a peanut butter porter in the near future. Can't wait to see how this turns out for you

 

[adamranders]

I've made a couple attempts at a PB cup porter, using pb2. My first with 1lb at 10min and 1lb in secondary. Minimal pb flavor, nearly non palatable. My second I decided to really go for it with the pb2, 1lb at 30 min, 1 at 10 min, 1 at flameout, and 2 in secondary, for a total of 5lbs. Very present roasted peanut flavor, but not PB. Never quite tasted like a pb cup, just like roasted peanuts. Also the second had 1lb lactose to try to add some residual sweetness but wasn't enough, and both had cocoa nibs.

 

[dlampen45]

Wow 5 lbs? I'm assuming that's a 5 gallon batch too. Any idea what the rest of the recipe looked like, was there a ton of other flavors for it to fight through or is the pb2 just really subdued?

 

[adamranders]

It was northern brewers Baltic porter recipe as the base. Yes 5gal. The pb2 wasn't subdued, just didn't end up tasting like pb, more like plain roasted peanuts.