Using Oreos

[Beenym88]

You would have to expect the beer would not hold its head retention when adding things with fats you know your giving that up. Did you sample before the oreos how was it then? I actually plan on trying an Oreo stout one day myself and I just don’t like extracts I’ve only had bad experiences with them even using the highly recommended ones but that’s just me. However right now for me it’s sour season and adding fruit is easy.

 

[KDogg]

Yeah so since I split the batch, I have the other half as the base to compare against. I had 32oz of it last night and it's rather nice and head retention is much different, sets up like a creamy Guinness with a slightly darker color. It's the Northern Brewer Place Coffee kit.

I tasted the Mix before I decided how much Oreo powder to put in yes. Based off a one cup sample and ratio math, decided the sample I made was too sweet and that I should add less powder, thus added only one cup of the powder to the half batch (2.5G) so as to not over power it. It was already sweet.

I had read about fats but now I see and believe it.

If you do rock one out, please let us know. Hope this post helps your perspective and planning on the subject.

 

[laura2863]

Josh Baas of Elk Grove, CA won a National Gold in 2019 for his "Sticky Faucet Oatmeal Milk Stout" which uses 2.5 lbs of Oreos (crumbled - includes the creme) / 5 gallons. Just made it. Sticky faucet is correct! I'm guessing he named it such to avoid judges having a bias if "Oreo" was in the title. I'm trying to siphon this thick beer right now.

For those of you who are members of the American Homebrewer's Association - the recipe is here: Sticky Faucet Oatmeal Milk Stout | Beer Recipe | American Homebrewers Association

 

[KDogg]

Maybe I just needed to add a TON more!? Interesting. The head in the picture I'm surprised to see with the fats taking it's toll on retention.

 

[KDogg]

Please let us know how this turns out

 

[laura2863]

I wonder if that is a stock photo.

I have been force carbing mine ... so far it's taking a WHILE! lol. This is a pretty thick stout. I hope it doesn't cause a problem in my keg lines. I had to leave about a gallon in the fermenter because it either wouldn't siphon or was super super slow which meant probable clog on keg lines. IF I do this again, I'll see about crushing the cookies to a powder. But, I think the cookie did disintegrate (at least my oreo cookies in milk do...) - not sure what is making it so thick!

Taste is kind of good. Needs time to build complexity. Ends up a bit sweet. Award winner got it down to 1.032. I waited a week at 1.035/1.034 - probably should have let it sit a while longer. It does (surprisingly) have some fusels in the taste.

 

[KDogg]

Crazy! Yes fusels is the word. It ended up looking like a thick cake on top for sure with the thin powder I made it into... Interesting. I just uncapped another one of mine tonight oddly enough, hasn't gotten better with age so far...

 

[laura2863]

I didn't have any thickness on top and I do think the taste is integrated. So maybe using the actual cookie was better. I have a beer guild meeting later in the month where I'll share it with some of the "gray beards" and see what they suggest for next batches.

After I finished the oreo stout I poured a commercial craft brew into the same glass - no head. Amazing how powerful that oil is. If I get any gray beard tips - I'll pass them along.

 

[KDogg]

So your experiment was with the residual fats left over after your Oreo stout? With a Clean glass You would see head from commercial pour?

 

[superiorsat]

Just stumbled onto this thread. I couple years back I brewed basically my milk stout without the lactose. Added a family pack of oreos think it was like 2.7 pounds. Add whole when fermentation was winding down, cookie part basically dissolved but the sugar centers were pretty much not edible for the yeast. Head retention wasn't horrible. It really did taste like oreos for about a week, then faded gradually to kind of essence of oreo. Was worth doing once but not real interested in doing it again.

 

[superiorsat]

That was keged not bottle conditioned.

 

[skidmark]

Will this madness ever end?