What do you think?
5 gallon extract recipe
6.0 lb Dry Malt Extract - Boil
1.0 lb Lactose Boil
0.5 lb Chocolate (US) Steep
0.5 lb Roasted Barley (US) Steep
0.5 lb Brown Sugar Boil
0.5 lb Flaked Oats Boil
0.4 lb Molasses Boil
Hops
1.0 oz Northern Brewer 60 min
1.0 oz Cascade 50 min
1.0 oz East Kent Golding 45 min
Yeasts
American Ale Wyeast 1056
1.0 each Vanilla Beans 2.0 week
4.0 oz Cocoa Nibs soaked in 6 oz Bourbon 2.0 week
0.5 oz American Oak Chips 7 days
The following are my personal feelings, feel free to ignore them.
1; I’m not a big fan of brown sugar in beer.
2: I wouldn’t use goldings or cascade to bitter, that’s a waste of good flavor/aroma hops.
3: Vanilla fades pretty quickly, I’d use more.
4: Cascade Candi Syrup company make a cocoa nib candi syrup that you might want to consider.
5: I know you are an extract brewer, but you’d be better off doing a mini-mash with the oats and a pound
of 2-row.
Good luck with this brew.
I’ll second the more vanilla advice. I’ve done several beers with vanilla, my best was with 2 large madagascar beans, sliced, scraped, chopped, then soaked in just enough vodka to coat for about two weeks. Added the entire tincture, beans and all, after two weeks of fermentation. Let it go another week. Was perfect.
And Rookie is right, vanilla fades fairly quick.
And if I’m not mistaken, you’ll get nothing from the oats without a mini mash. I could be wrong though.
Best of luck, bourbon milk stout just rolls off the tongue nicely!
Cheers,
Ron
