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Offline yso191

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St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« on: September 19, 2016, 05:53:17 pm »
I just tapped this beer.  I brewed it back in April, and it has been sitting in my wine cellar at 57* since.  It tastes exactly like I had hoped.  I am so pleased I thought I would share the recipe here.  This is also an experiment in that I used Starbucks VIA Columbia (microground coffee).  That way I didn't have to cold brew, press, bag beans or anything - just dump it in the keg and purge with CO2, and rack the beer on top of it.  Anyway, here is the recipe:

18 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter  73.5 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM)  6.1 %
1 lbs Barley, Flaked (1.7 SRM)  4.1 %
1 lbs Black Barley (Stout) (500.0 SRM)  4.1 %
1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)  4.1 %
1 lbs Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM)  4.1 %
1 lbs Wheat Malt, Ger (2.0 SRM)  4.1 %
2.25 oz Columbus (Tomahawk/Zeus) CTZ [13.20 %] - Boil 60.0 min 66.6 IBUs
4.00 oz Ghirardelli Chocolate Baking Bar, 100% Cacao Unsweetened Chocolate, 4-Ounce Bar (Boil 5.0 mins)
5.00 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min for 20 minutes
2.0 pkg Denny's favorite (Wyeast Labs #1450)
4.00 Items Starbucks VIA (Secondary 0.0 mins)
Steve
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Offline pete b

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Re: St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2016, 06:24:28 pm »
Sounds tasty Steve. All those flaked grains and the 1450 must give it great body.
Is that a ten gallon recipe?
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Offline HoosierBrew

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Re: St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2016, 06:33:52 pm »
I love a big, roasty stout. Sounds terrific!
Jon H.

Offline yso191

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Re: St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2016, 06:34:38 pm »
Sounds tasty Steve. All those flaked grains and the 1450 must give it great body.
Is that a ten gallon recipe?

Yes.  Chewy deliciousness!  5 gallons.  1.092 OG
Steve
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Re: St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2016, 07:02:41 pm »
Sounds tasty Steve. All those flaked grains and the 1450 must give it great body.
Is that a ten gallon recipe?

Yes.  Chewy deliciousness!  5 gallons.  1.092 OG
That's a big one! Nice. I think the grain bill would scale down nicely too though.
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Re: St. Nicholas Chocolate Coffee Stout
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2016, 02:48:37 pm »
Sounds like a brew I would like to try someday,  thanks for posting
Frank L.
Fermenting: Nothing (ugh!)
Conditioning: Nothing (UGH!)
In keg: Nothing (Double UGH!)
In the works:  House IPA, Dark Mild, Ballantine Ale clone(still trying to work this one into the schedule)