American Stout - Idaho's Chocolate

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Alan_Reginato

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Location
Brazil
Recipe Type
All Grain BIAB

Yeast
Nottingham, yeast cake

Yeast Starter
No

Total brew water
30 L (7,9 us gal)
No sparge

Pre-boil
24 L (6,3 us gal)

Post-boil
21 L (5,5 us gal)

Batch Size (fermenter)
20 L (5,2 us gal)

Original Gravity
1.069

Final Gravity
1.014

ABV
8%

Boiling Time (Minutes)
60

IBU
60

Color
30 SRM

Brewhouse efficiency: 70%

Primary Fermentation
20 days, 15 C (59 F)
Water bath.

Tasting Notes
Cocoa, resinous/pine, smooth bitterness, some fruit in the background.

Ingredients:

5.25 kg (12 lb) Pilsner malt (78%)

0.5 kg (1,1 lb) Patagonia Chocolate Malt 350L (7%)

1 kg inverted sugar (15%)


Hops: Idaho 7 13% AA

Water:

Alkalinity (6) and hardness (15) are pretty low here. So be free to adjust it.

Mash Schedule:

Start at 40 C (104 F), rise to 66 C (151 F) keep it for 120 min and mash out at 80 C (176F).

Hops Schedule:

@60min: 35g Idaho 7 (13% AA)
@15min: 15g Idaho 7 (13% AA)

Chill to 20 C (68F)

Carbonation: 3.5 co2 vol. 10g/L priming.
Carb lower, if you don't like the bite.

Open the first bottle after 3 months. Taste like very bitter chocolate, nearly cocoa powder. Even at low quantities, the hop shows up with a pine, resinous flavour. A subtle sweet fruit flavour was there, as well. Didn't like that much, but it's drinkable.
 

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