luckyeddie
Landlord.
I thought long and hard about this. Mrs Luckyeddie is a dedicated Belgiumophile and a total dark chocolate fiend. She also loves stout, so as a one-off, I have decided to put together a pretty extreme chocolate stout using my favourite Belgian yeast. Saturday is brewday.
It's either going to be the most awesome flight of fancy which will keep me in nocturnal naughties for weeks, or it's going to be an incredible disappointment. The cocoa should add a healthy bitter background to balance the sweetness of the grainbill and the fruity notes which typify the Duvel yeast, but there is also the chocolate hit that should come from the Nielsen Massey Chocolate Extract. This stuff better be as out of this world as some of the American brewers who have used it have said - with postage, it's £7 for just 60 mls.
Grainbill
2.500 Maris Otter
1.000 Pilsner Malt
0.400 Chocolate Malt
0.300 Flaked Oats
0.200 Special B Malt
0.100 Dark Crystal
0.100 Torrified Wheat
Last 15 minutes of boil
1.000 Candi Sugar Light
0.250 Cocoa powder
Hop Schedule
25g Fuggles @ 60min
25g EKG @ 30min
25g EKG @ 15min
Yeasties
Duvel yeast (bottle harvest)
Secondary Fermentation
10g Nielsen Massey Chocolate Extract
It's either going to be the most awesome flight of fancy which will keep me in nocturnal naughties for weeks, or it's going to be an incredible disappointment. The cocoa should add a healthy bitter background to balance the sweetness of the grainbill and the fruity notes which typify the Duvel yeast, but there is also the chocolate hit that should come from the Nielsen Massey Chocolate Extract. This stuff better be as out of this world as some of the American brewers who have used it have said - with postage, it's £7 for just 60 mls.
Grainbill
2.500 Maris Otter
1.000 Pilsner Malt
0.400 Chocolate Malt
0.300 Flaked Oats
0.200 Special B Malt
0.100 Dark Crystal
0.100 Torrified Wheat
Last 15 minutes of boil
1.000 Candi Sugar Light
0.250 Cocoa powder
Hop Schedule
25g Fuggles @ 60min
25g EKG @ 30min
25g EKG @ 15min
Yeasties
Duvel yeast (bottle harvest)
Secondary Fermentation
10g Nielsen Massey Chocolate Extract