tootsie roll ale

[dmckean44]

I would think a late addition of orange zest would be good since toostie rolls have orange oil in them.

 

[tcsteeler1993]

I love experiential recipes like these. What was the OG/FG for this?

Also I am curious what the oats were for, because I know that unless they are mashed with a base malt like 2-row they do not contribute body to the wort.

The oats were for to give a little creaminess to the overall taste. I steeped them with the malt

 

[tcsteeler1993]

I would think a late addition of orange zest would be good since toostie rolls have orange oil in them.

Yeah maybe next time I will do that I never thought about that

 

[raptorvan]

So? I know its only been like a week but have you tested another bottle yet? You know, i would imagine a draft version of this poured thru a stout faucet would be amazing.

 

[nduetime]

My girlfriend keeps asking if you've posted the recipe yet...that never happens!!!!!!!

 

[raptorvan]

Well....i think the beer killed him.

 

[tcsteeler1993]

My girlfriend keeps asking if you've posted the recipe yet...that never happens!!!!!!!

Haha I'm not posting it until its complety done so I can see how the flavors turn out once conditioned. It was good after a week of being bottled but I opened one a few days ago and its starting to condition so now I'm just waiting

 

[nduetime]

Haha I'm not posting it until its complety done so I can see how the flavors turn out once conditioned. It was good after a week of being bottled but I opened one a few days ago and its starting to condition so now I'm just waiting

Ok fair enough...if you're not willing to share recipe until complete, do you think you can speed up this thing called time?!?!? I'm gonna assume that your answer is like everyone else I ask (no), so I suppose I'll make every attempt to practice that thing called patients. Just remember my girlfried is anxiouslly waiting, I'm not sure how much longer I can hold her off!

 

[tcsteeler1993]

Haha 2 more weeks of conditioning

 

[raptorvan]

Haha 2 more weeks of conditioning

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

why cant you keg like normal people lol

 

[scottywags]

Subscribed!

 

[tcsteeler1993]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

why cant you keg like normal people lol

Because I don't want to spend money on all the equiptment and i don't know a lot about kegging

 

[tcsteeler1993]

I cracked one open and I've never tasted anything like it before. Good head, taste, color, and smells like tootsie rolls as well as tastes like them too. It is more than a hint its like drinking a tootsie roll but that is what I was aiming for.

 

[brewmaster89]

I defiantly want to try this!

 

[Donkeybalboa]

definitely looking forward to the final recipe

 

[neovox]

Gotta know how this turns out.

 

[raptorvan]

Patiently waiting bump

 

[JonEleven]

Been waiting on this recipe as well, sounds great!

 

[raptorvan]

Its been 2 weeks....ITS BEEN 2 WEEKS!!!!!!!

 

[tcsteeler1993]

The recipe is on the first page. Except add chocolate extract and vanilla extract to taste. Split up the malt extract with tootsie rolls. I used around 2 lbs with 3.3 lbs of light malt extract. I used 1.5 oz of willamette hops and half a can of cocoa powder with ten minutes left in the boil and 1/3 of a whirlfloc tablet. You can use Irish moss as well. Just taste it after primary and secondary. Adjust the beer to taste. My beer taste like it is going to be strong but then it mellows completely out and tastes like tootsie rolls at the end. It has a tootsie roll aroma as well. I also steeped 8 oz of 60L carmel malt mixed with rolled oats before the boil. Just look on the first page at the ingredients because I may be wrong on the oz of hops and malt

 

[tcsteeler1993]

There may be a little fat at the end of fermentation but scrape it off

 

[Flike01]

So I thought I was pretty original with my idea I had tonight, but here this is.

I wasn't aiming for a tootsie roll ale, but I happened to go out and buy tootsie rolls for my brew since I read they are heavy in maltrose, and I was making an extract red ale that already had a touch of chocolate in it. I also added 2lbs of honey, and 2lbs of cane sugar...while only having about 30 tootsie rolls in it. I -just- capped the fermentation bucket though, and we'll see how this turns out!

 

[tcsteeler1993]

So I thought I was pretty original with my idea I had tonight, but here this is.

I wasn't aiming for a tootsie roll ale, but I happened to go out and buy tootsie rolls for my brew since I read they are heavy in maltrose, and I was making an extract red ale that already had a touch of chocolate in it. I also added 2lbs of honey, and 2lbs of cane sugar...while only having about 30 tootsie rolls in it. I -just- capped the fermentation bucket though, and we'll see how this turns out!

Sounds interesting keep us updated

 

[Flike01]

So far so good! The airlock is bubblin' like a mofo

I'll try to post when I move to secondary!

 

[bcpux]

How much vanilla did you add at bottling? Since the taste mellows out, Im concerned about adding too much or too little!

 

[themaltyfalcon]

Did you ever brew this?

 

[themaltyfalcon]

I would think the fats are going to kill the head retention in a non-AG beer. I've used a pound of Hershey's kisses before, but mashed them so that the grain would soak up most of the fats. Interested to see how this turns out.

Did that have the intended effect?

 

[themaltyfalcon]

I wasn't aiming for a tootsie roll ale, but I happened to go out and buy tootsie rolls for my brew since I read they are heavy in maltrose, and I was making an extract red ale that already had a touch of chocolate in it. I also added 2lbs of honey, and 2lbs of cane sugar...while only having about 30 tootsie rolls in it. I -just- capped the fermentation bucket though, and we'll see how this turns out!

How did this taste, in the end?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

He might have, but he was banned for being underage.

 

[Flike01]

My Tootsie Red turned out pretty well.

One thing I really didn't like is the excess fat sat with the yeast trub at the bottom of the bottles, so you had to be extra careful not to stir them around when pouring because the only thing worse than a mouthful of yeast is probably a mouthful of congealed fat in your beer.

The chocolate taste didn't really ring through too much, and it just turned into more of an imperial red (I had it gauged around 9%-10%). The tootsie rolls really shined through in the aroma though. The beer smelled just like a tootsie roll, which was a pretty cool novelty of it

People loved it.