Relatively low ABV chocolate chili stout?

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pieman396

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Hey guys, want to come up with a relatively low ABV chocolate chili stout for extended sipping this winter. What do you think about this recipe? I'm going for a semi sweet chocolatey flavor, maybe enhanced with some vanilla bean, with a spice kick near the end. NOT looking for much of the vegetal pepper flavor though. Would love some pepper recommendations based off of that. Anyway, here it is:

Name: Chocolate Chili Stout
Brew Method: Extract
Batch Size: 5 Gallon OG: 1.062 FG: 1.018 SRM: 36 IBU: 35

Fermentables
7.00 lb Pilsen DME
0.75 lb Lactose
0.75 lb Caramel 60L
0.75 lb Chocolate Malt
0.25 lb Black Patent Malt
0.25 lb Roasted Barley

Boil Additions
2 oz Fuggle @60 min
1 oz Fuggle @5 min

Yeast
Safale US-05

Additions:
6oz cacao powder @ flameout
4oz cacao nibs in secondary for a week
1 split vanilla bean in secondary
0.5 tsp cinnamon in secondary
UNKNOWN CHILI COMBO??? in secondary

Would love some input on how this will work. You don't really see too many huge flavor, low ABV stouts so there must be a reason why? I kinda want a Mexican Cake feel here without the 10.5%. Not a clone or anything, just a nice bold flavor. What do you guys think? Like I said, looking at the chilis more for a little bit of heat, not for the vegetal flavors.
 

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