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Cookies?????
travjohn92:
So my local homebrew is having a member brew competition where everybody has to use the same uncommon ingredient. This ingredient is iced oatmeal cookies.
My thought is to crush them and put them in a grain bag during the boil, but I don't know how that will work. I don't typically mess with a lot of nontraditional ingredients so I am at a loss on potentially the best way to incorporate. The ingredients contain sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose and rolled oats. I am assuming I would get some fermentables out of it if I incorporate it at the right time, but what is the right time? Do I necessarily want any fermentables from it? My thought is to incorporate into a stout or porter, but I don't know.
Any suggestions, thoughts, comments, suggested style, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
mtnrockhopper:
I wouldn't care about fermentables as much as flavor, so I'd put them in for the last 5-10 minutes of the boil to try to extract the spice/cookie flavors.
Stout might have too much competing roast. I think the flavors in english brown would blend nicely. I bet a lot of people will pick browns or stouts though. A well done example in a style nobody expects might stick out more.
For ingredients, I'd go with grains that complement flavors in the cookie - maris otter, crystal 30L-ish, wheat malt maybe? Low hop bitterness to accentuate sweetness. Perhaps cheat by adding some cinnamon. Special B for a raisin note? Oats for mouthfeel might be good too.
travjohn92:
Thanks for the input.
Would you crush the cookies, slightly break them, or keep them whole? Either way I would keep them in a grain bag.
mtnrockhopper:
Break them up, though they'll probably fall apart in the wort anyway. Grain bag is a good idea.
The Professor:
The above suggestions are good. Sounds like an interesting experiment.
Just don't expect great head retention in the finished beer.
I guess it depends on the cookies, but most cookies (the tastier ones, anyway) are made with a fair amount of fat.
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