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Chocolate Stout

Chocolate Stout
by Mark Sullivan, Chesapeake Real Ale Brewers (CRAB)
Taken from "More Homebrew Favorites", by Lutzen & Stevens.


Ingredients:


  • 0.75 pounds Crystal malt

  • 0.5 pounds Roasted barley

  • 0.33 pounds Black patent malt

  • 4 lbs Dark DME

  • 3.3 lbs Dark malt syrup
  • 6 tsp Gypsum

  • 1 oz Northern Brewer hops (7-11% AA)

  • 8 tbsp Hershey's unsweetened cocoa

  • 1.50 oz Fuggles hops (4-6% AA), seperated into 2 equal piles

  • One package Wyeast 1318; London Ale II

Steep grains in 2 gallons of 160 degree F water for 20 minutes.  Remove the grains and discard, and bring the water to a boil.  Remove from heat.
Add the extracts and the gypsum, and bring the wort back up to a boil.  Once it is boiling, set a timer for 60 minutes, and add the Northern Brewer hops.  Boil for 20 minutes, and add 0.75 ounces of Fuggles hops.After 30 more minutes, add the remainder of the Fuggles hops.  Boil for an additional 10 minutes and remove from heat.
Pitch the yeast as standard.  Primary fermentation should take about 5 days.  Secondary should take about a week.  Prime with 0.5 cup corn sugar and bottle.  Age as needed.

This recipe is a bit extrapolated by me.  The original syrup listed to use was a hopped extract, but I have always preferred adding my own hops.  The first addition of Fuggles is my way of compensating for the lack of hopped syrup.
Secondly, the yeast strain is my own addition as well.  The original recipe does not specify a variety to use, so I made the decision.  Pretty much any American or British strain would be an acceptable substitution.

 

This is an old one, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to make it, or how this turned out.  Thinking of trying a chocolate in a couple of weeks and looking for input.

Thanks.

 

Screw the 8 tbsp of cocao powder.
I made a chocolate porter a year ago or so and I used the whole 10oz Hershey's cocoa powder tin.

That gave me a great chocolate taste without being over the top.  I had a 4rth of july party and my guests downed the entire 5 gallon keg of that stuff on a hot summer afternoon!  Go figure.

 

Yeah I just knocked out a Chocolate Stout and used the whole 8 oz. can of powder...looking really nice.

 

So 8z cocoa powder added with 10 minutes left in the boil?  Does that sound about right?

 

McBrewer wrote:

So 8z cocoa powder added with 10 minutes left in the boil?  Does that sound about right?

Screw all that man, just 8 oz in a pint glass with 8 oz of porter on top of it.  Suck it up with your racking cane!


OK, 10 minutes left is a fine time to add the cocoa.

 

Hmmm, 8oz in a pint glass...  I like it!!  I'm trying it tonight!  (you may need to send the paramedics my way though...)

 

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