Hi all,
My first brew has been in the fermentor for a week now (simple Brewers Best weissbier kit), and I am starting to think about the next brew. I have taken a BrewToad recipe (https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/bourbon-vanilla-stout) and started to play with it in Brew Smith. Attached is my planned recipe.
I would appreciate any feedback anyone has on the recipe.
Also, this will be the first time I have done anything more than basic LME boiling, so I do have a few questions...
1) Is it normal to add oats and corn sugar directly to the boil? I would have expected the former to be included in the grain steeping, and the latter as part of the bottling process?
2) I am planning on doing a partial boil, and want to make sure I have correctly accounted for this in the recipe.
3) Would it be alright if I started soaking the vanilla beans and oak chips now, even though I won't be adding to the secondary in 2-3 weeks?
4) Has anyone made a Scotch infused stout? I didn't see a lot of recipes for this, which is why I switched to bourbon, but curious whether anyone has experience with scotch as I do prefer this over bourbon.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
My first brew has been in the fermentor for a week now (simple Brewers Best weissbier kit), and I am starting to think about the next brew. I have taken a BrewToad recipe (https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/bourbon-vanilla-stout) and started to play with it in Brew Smith. Attached is my planned recipe.
I would appreciate any feedback anyone has on the recipe.
Also, this will be the first time I have done anything more than basic LME boiling, so I do have a few questions...
1) Is it normal to add oats and corn sugar directly to the boil? I would have expected the former to be included in the grain steeping, and the latter as part of the bottling process?
2) I am planning on doing a partial boil, and want to make sure I have correctly accounted for this in the recipe.
3) Would it be alright if I started soaking the vanilla beans and oak chips now, even though I won't be adding to the secondary in 2-3 weeks?
4) Has anyone made a Scotch infused stout? I didn't see a lot of recipes for this, which is why I switched to bourbon, but curious whether anyone has experience with scotch as I do prefer this over bourbon.
Thanks for any help you can provide!