McAustin's Mocha Stout - Modified
I found this recipe at homeBrewTalk.com, in a thread from 4/21/2006. I dropped the 0.75 cup of 'special dark cocoa' in the last 5 minutes that the recipe included, and tweaked the hopping since the original values gave a much higher bitterness when plugged-in here. I kept the Northern Brewer at the full time, moved the Fuggles to the last 15 minutes rather than 20, and doubled the Tettnanger to 1 oz but moved it to flame-out for aroma only.
The recipe also calls for the addition of 28 oz (3.5 cups) of cold brewed coffee when the beer is racked to secondary, after ~14 days in primary fermentation.
Brewer: | Tony Hazlett | Email: | - | |||||
Beer: | McAustin's Mocha Stout - Modified | Style: | Sweet Stout | |||||
Type: | Extract w/grain | Size: | 5 gallons | |||||
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Bitterness: | 41 IBU | |||||
OG: | 1.062 | FG: | 1.018 | |||||
Alcohol: | 5.7% v/v (4.5% w/w) | |||||||
Water: | I used supermarket-brand 'drinking water' due to high levels of solids in my tap water. | |||||||
Grain: | 1 lb. British pale 1 lb. American crystal 60L 0.25 lb. American chocolate 0.5 lb. Roasted barley 0.25 lb. Flaked oats |
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Steep: | I steeped all the grains for 45 minutes at 152-154°. | |||||||
Boil: | 67 minutes | SG 1.052 | 6 gallons | |||||
6 lb. Dark dry malt extract | ||||||||
0.5 lb lactose added to the boil for the last 15 minutes, and 1 tsp of Irish Moss added for the last 10 minutes. | ||||||||
Hops: | 1 oz. Northern Brewer (8.5% AA, 60 min.) 1 oz. Fuggles (4.75% AA, 15 min.) 1 oz. Tettnanger (aroma) |
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Yeast: | White Labs English Ale - WLP002, pitching temp 64°, air temp 45°. Oxygenated via airstone for 1 minute after pitching. |
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Log: | Brewed on 12/29/2010, a rainy & windy day in my back yard in California. This was the first batch in this kettle, and I got a lot more boil-off than expected, with only 3.9 gallons of OG 1.084 wort into the carboy. I diluted with distilled water to make 5 gallons of OG 1.065 wort. I tasted the wort used for the gravity reading: sweet, roasty, and hoppy, and a deep dark brown in color. |
Recipe posted 12/29/10.