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Small Batch Stout (3 gallon boil, approx 2 gallon batch volume).
Full volume boil
Steeping Grains:
4 oz American Chocolate
4 oz Roasted Barley
4 oz Belgian Biscuit
4 oz UK Pale 2 row
6 oz Flaked Oats
Fermentables:
44 oz Light British DME
Hops
0.3 oz Nugget (11.3) at T=60
0.4 oz Fuggles (4.8) at T=30
Adjunct
1/2 Vanilla Bean split and scraped at knockout
Irish Ale Yeast Wyeast 1084 SmackPack
With all the dark roasted malts, I had very much a coffee vibe coming from the steep. The Vanilla at the end was an impulse, I hope it doesn't take over. OG was a bit higher than spec, but I've taken to "rinsing" my steeping bag (dunking it in clean water and adding that to the boil) so that might account for it.
Thoughts on this? My last two stouts didn't fare well. I overdid the coffee addition during bottling for the one, and I think the second was contaminated, so I tried to simplify things a bit. Went into the fermentor last night.
Full volume boil
Steeping Grains:
4 oz American Chocolate
4 oz Roasted Barley
4 oz Belgian Biscuit
4 oz UK Pale 2 row
6 oz Flaked Oats
Fermentables:
44 oz Light British DME
Hops
0.3 oz Nugget (11.3) at T=60
0.4 oz Fuggles (4.8) at T=30
Adjunct
1/2 Vanilla Bean split and scraped at knockout
Irish Ale Yeast Wyeast 1084 SmackPack
With all the dark roasted malts, I had very much a coffee vibe coming from the steep. The Vanilla at the end was an impulse, I hope it doesn't take over. OG was a bit higher than spec, but I've taken to "rinsing" my steeping bag (dunking it in clean water and adding that to the boil) so that might account for it.
Thoughts on this? My last two stouts didn't fare well. I overdid the coffee addition during bottling for the one, and I think the second was contaminated, so I tried to simplify things a bit. Went into the fermentor last night.