Brewing my attempt at a Paulaner Oktoberfest clone tomorrow, will be my first attempt at brewing since my coronavirus infection. I’ve held off because I lost all my smell and taste but it seems to have come back enough to brew.
Interesting brew day, took 2 hours to get conversion. It was a tad bit cooler than normal this morning, I was shooting for 149, but it dropped to 147. I was too lazy to boil some and I wanted the beer to be on the drier side anyways so let it roll checking every 30 minutes. I dry fired my HLT by accident during clean up.Brewing my attempt at a Paulaner Oktoberfest clone tomorrow, will be my first attempt at brewing since my coronavirus infection. I’ve held off because I lost all my smell and taste but it seems to have come back enough to brew.
I brewed the Left Hand Milk Stout clone found on this site, last fall. I added some toasted coconut extract. It came out awesome and was the hit of a Christmas party I attended. It held its own on a blind taste test with Death By Coconut andLooking to brew up a milk stout this weekend. Brewed almost every other kind of stout besides this over the years, so now is the time. Really trying to nail mouthfeel on this one, and not have it overly sweet even with the lactose.
Just checked it out and it's actually remarkably similar to what I came up with. Only differences in the grist are I'm using mild malt for the base (since I already had it), I'm layering my crystal malts (so I also have some C120), and some of the quantities (most notably I'm using more Munich). But really very close all things considered.I brewed the Left Hand Milk Stout clone found on this site, last fall. I added some toasted coconut extract. It came out awesome and was the hit of a Christmas party I attended. It held its own on a blind taste test with Death By Coconut and Maui's HIWA Porter.