Caramel Macchiato Stout

[Enoch52]

I'm thinking of making my first stout, and I thought something with a bit of caramel flavor might be a nice twist. I wanted to use a sweet/milk stout as a base, and punch up the coffee and caramel flavors. Here's what I have right now (using Otiexeira's Milk O'Stout recipe as a starting point):

8.0 oz Rice Hulls
8 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter
1 lbs 8.0 oz Chocolate Malt
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt (60L)
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt (120L)
8.0 oz Roasted Barley
1 lbs Milk Sugar (Lactose)
1.50 oz Fuggles [3.80 %]
0.50 oz Fuggles [3.80 %]
1.0 pkg Irish Ale (Wyeast Labs #1084)

The only change I've made was to drop a pound of MO and add in the pound of caramel malts. I'm also considering boiling down some of the first runnings to get a little kettle caramelization.

Any thoughts?

 

[shadows69]

If I may I think the carmel taste your shooting for is from candy syrup. See carmel ale in the recieps section of these forms. I have the carmel ale on tap and has a very carmel taste to it.

 

[Enoch52]

Well, I was looking at experimenting with candy syrups anyway...thanks for the feedback!

 

[Enoch52]

So would you axe the caramel malts and add the MO back in?

 

[rgauthier20420]

Do you bottle or keg? There's always Caramel extract. I've tried it and it's not bad. Another thing that was suggested when I was asking about the flavor your shooting for was to steep your caramel grains to get just the flavor and boil it down a bit to concentrate and then add to bottling bucket or keg.

Good luck!

 

[Enoch52]

I'm bottling. I've never played around with flavor extracts--do those work well?

 

[shadows69]

So would you axe the caramel malts and add the MO back in?

I would still keeo some of the carmel/crystal. Not sure about the lactose, might be to sweet. Maybe some flaked wheat?

 

[rgauthier20420]

I'm bottling. I've never played around with flavor extracts--do those work well?

I used some in a vanilla and caramel porter that turned out pretty nice.

 

[Enoch52]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm planning on adding some cold-pressed coffee at bottling. I may hold the lactose back and see what it tastes like after fermentation is done, and add it as necessary.

 

[shadows69]

GMO sweet stout now posted under stout recipes looks like almost the recipe your looking for.