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Ok - I awhile back I decided on Memorial day to make my Banana Beer. This year its a stout. The last banana beer was a Dubbel Fat Tire Clone. This year its gonna be a chocolate & banana sweet milkshake stout. Its a sweet stout by style but between the cocoa, banana, the malt selection and the use of lactose and cacao nibs its gonna be more like a milkshake IPA but stout in this case. Lots of chocolate and banana flavor.
Grist is as follows;
- 8lbs of pale malt
- 2lbs of biscuit
- 1/2 lb of dark roasted barley (unmalted)
- 1/2 lb of black malt
- 8 oz of Cocoa Powder (Yes in the mash)
Hop Schedule
- 1 oz of Northern Brewer at 60 minutes - 4.9% AAU
- 1 oz of Northern Brewer at 20 minutes - 4.9% AAU
- 10.5 lbs of Banana at 5 minutes, Banana Meat and all of the peel.
Yeast
- 2 Packs of Fermentus S-33
Other
- 4 oz of Cacao Nibs in the keg for 7 days using a tea-ball. After having been soaked for a week in rum. Just enough to cover the nips. I plan to add this rum too.
OG 1.054 (Before addition of the banana)
FG 1.015
IBU 30.2
SRM 33.3
ABV 5.1% (w/o including the banana)
HLT tank is full, Strike water in the mash tun, and waiting for my infusion mash water to hit temps.
Doughing in at 165F with 3.5 gal of water. Ok - over shot to 160!
Grist is as follows;
- 8lbs of pale malt
- 2lbs of biscuit
- 1/2 lb of dark roasted barley (unmalted)
- 1/2 lb of black malt
- 8 oz of Cocoa Powder (Yes in the mash)
Hop Schedule
- 1 oz of Northern Brewer at 60 minutes - 4.9% AAU
- 1 oz of Northern Brewer at 20 minutes - 4.9% AAU
- 10.5 lbs of Banana at 5 minutes, Banana Meat and all of the peel.
Yeast
- 2 Packs of Fermentus S-33
Other
- 4 oz of Cacao Nibs in the keg for 7 days using a tea-ball. After having been soaked for a week in rum. Just enough to cover the nips. I plan to add this rum too.
OG 1.054 (Before addition of the banana)
FG 1.015
IBU 30.2
SRM 33.3
ABV 5.1% (w/o including the banana)
HLT tank is full, Strike water in the mash tun, and waiting for my infusion mash water to hit temps.
Doughing in at 165F with 3.5 gal of water. Ok - over shot to 160!
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