Saturday, November 18, 2017

Tiramisu Stout

Hi all! I've been wanting to brew this beer for some time and finally decided to get it done! I've been wanting a good stout, but most local breweries don't have any on tap. I love stouts of all flavor combinations. When I worked as a brewer, I developed a recipe for a blond ale, flavored like tiramisu. I feel those flavors are better suited for a stout as they have flavors in common. Coffee and chocolate are the primary flavors which can be derived from malt. Of course there has to be brandy in there somewhere, so I'm going to get more chocolate flavor from cocoa nibs, which I'm soaking in brandy, then adding them in secondary fermentation. I'll be adding more flavors during bottling to round it out. I don't want an overly sweet beer, but I am using a British ale yeast to leave some residual sugars behind. The malt bill has Munich malt, oat malt, flaked malt, brown malt, coffee malt, chocolate malt, caramel malt, and flaked oats. I used UK Target hops as they seem to compliment stouts quite nicely. Looking forward to the final product! Starting gravity was 1.054.
Thanks for reading!
CHEERS!
Steve

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