Cool recipe, how much cranberry do you get coming through?This is my big chocolate Stout, not with coffee, but with Cranberry
This one is a ripper, and some will attest that it will "do some damage"
Food for though anyways
Bloody Finger
Foreign Extra Stout 7.0% / 17.7 °P
68% efficiency
Batch Volume: 19 L
Boil Time: 60 min
Mash Water: 22.09 L
Sparge Water: 5.26 L @ 76.7 °C
Total Water: 27.35 L
Boil Volume: 23.35 L
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.056
Original Gravity: 1.073
Final Gravity: 1.020
IBU (Tinseth): 61
BU/GU: 0.84
Color: 36.5 SRM
Strike Temp — 72.8 °C
Temperature — 68 °C — 60 min
Sparge — 77 °C — 10 min
Malts (5.48 kg)
3.7 kg (60.7%) — Patagonia Pale Malt — Grain — 3.1 °L
740 g (12.1%) — Briess Oats, Flaked — Grain — 1.6 °L
270 g (4.4%) — Briess Chocolate — Grain — 258.9 °L
250 g (4.1%) — Weyermann Caramunich I — Grain — 38.2 °L
190 g (3.1%) — Weyermann Caraaroma — Grain — 132 °L
170 g (2.8%) — Bairds Roasted Barley — Grain — 443.5 °L
160 g (2.6%) — Wheat Flaked — Grain — 2 °L
620 g (10.2%) — Briess Golden Light — Dry Extract — 3.5 °L
Hops (87.4 g)
38.9 g (31 IBU) — Cascade 6.6% — Boil — 60 min
48.5 g (31 IBU) — Cascade 6.6% — Boil — 30 min
Miscs
3 g — Baking Soda (NaHCO3) — Mash
5 g — Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) — Mash
2 g — Epsom Salt (MgSO4) — Mash
2 g — Gypsum (CaSO4) — Mash
0.913 items — Vanilla bean — Secondary
112 g — Cacao Nibs — Bottling
Yeast
2 pkg — Fermentis S-04 SafAle English Ale 75%
Fermentation
Primary — 19 °C — 14 days
Carbonation: 2.5 CO2-vol
Water Profile
Ca2+68
Mg2+ 7
Na+ 38
Cl- 92
SO42- 70
HCO3- 94
3 weeks in advance, soak cacao nibs in rum
At Packaging Add rum and cacao mixture, 76 ml of pure cranberry juice, and 4ml of pure vanilla extract
It's a great beer!Cool recipe, how much cranberry do you get coming through?
I have never brewed a stout that was that high IBU! pretty neat!
i bet that cranberry juice is pricey!It's a great beer!
I really should brew it again, it's been a while.
It has a "hint" of cranberry flavor, it is easy to overdo it with Cranberry.
I actually bought a very similar stout that was just a straight up high ABV stout, and did some trial and error adding the cranberry, and cocoa powder to get the "right" flavor for me. Then I extrapolated the amount to add to my batch.
First brew I used cocoa powder, decided to do the nibs soaked in rum, I should actually increase that next time.
I used something like this for the cranberry, different brand though.
The damage this beer did was to my finger (carboy breakage story), hence the name "Bloody Finger"
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I used grocery oatmeal-- quaker oats. I just bottled it and I tasted the un-carbonated beer--although it did not that milk shake thickness that lactose has, it was "silky".. couple of weeks from now, we will see if it worked.No oatmeal simply because I don't have any! I have to buy all my ingredients online because there are no beer supply stores for miles! Can I use oatmeal from the grocery store? If so, which one? This will be my first time brewing this recipe so I will let you know how it turns out!