Recipe Check - American Stout

[brewinthevalley]

I was wondering if I could get some advice on this recipe. Please let me know if this is not the right forum. This will be my first All-Grain brew, but not my first Stout.

• 7.5 lb Maris Otter Pale
• 4 lb Crystal 90L
• 2 lb Roasted Barley
• 6 lb Liquid Malt Extract - Dark
• .5 lb Lactose (@ 10 min).
• 1.5 oz Cascade Hops (@ 90 mins)
• 1 oz Cascade Hops (@ 20 mins)
• 1 oz Centennial Hops (@ 5 mins)
• Wyeast 1084
• 12 oz Coffee (cold brewed, refrigerated for 36 hours) (@ flameout).

What do you think? The purpose of this stout is to be a high alcohol, mid-range IBU, yet sweet and creamy bodied beer.

 

[Pappers_]

Hi, I moved this from the HBT Recipe Database (which is for tried-and-true recipes) to the Recipe and Ingredients forum, where more folks will see it and comment on it.

Here's some of my thoughts:

4 lb of Crystal is way way way too much. More like 0.5 - 1 lb is what you want. I'm assuming this is a five gallon batch, if so the 2 lb of roasted barley is way too much, also. In addition, I would add in some chocolate malt, replacing a portion of the roasted barley. So, maybe 0.5 lbs of chocolate and 0.75 lbs of roasted.

Have you run your recipe through brewing software, to get your numbers? You might also consider, for your first all-grain batch, to use a tried-and-true recipe from someone else, just to lower the variables - you'll know that the recipe was right, as you work through the all-grain brewing process.

Cheers!

 

[chickypad]

Agree with Pappers on the grainbill, and in addition would swap out the dark extract for light. Do you have the specs for this, looks like a huge beer if it's a 5 gallon batch. Seems like a lot going on on top of that with the coffee and lactose.

 

[hotspurdotus]

In addition to the above comments, I'd wait until bottling to add the coffee.

Add it at the same time you add your priming solution to the bottling bucket.