Peanut butter or Nutella stout

[g2rnewton]

Has anyone tried to add PB or Nutella to a stout. Wife loves dirty little freak by Duclaw in Baltimore. Want to make a clone for holidays.

 

[myndflyte]

I think if anything, I would use powered peanut butter. I'd be worried that the oil in the peanut butter would really affect any head retention you were hoping to have.

 

[g2rnewton]

Good idea. Will look for powdered.

 

[RPh_Guy]

I strongly recommend brewer's best peanut butter flavor or lorann oil peanut butter flavor.

Skip the hassle. Duclaw uses flavoring.

 

[g2rnewton]

I strongly recommend brewer's best peanut butter flavor or lorann oil peanut butter flavor.

Skip the hassle. Duclaw uses flavoring.

I usually buy my kits from Northern Brewing. I will look to see if they have the brewer's best flavoring. If they don't, do you know where I can get it on-line? Thanks.

 

[Packerjh]

I bought mine from here... My peanut butter cup milk stout is resting right now.

I initially added about 10oz of pb2 in the boil them added a bottle of this after fermentation and along with the vodka soaked cacao beans... Smelling really good and the extract was so much easier than adding powder would have been.

https://www.txbrewing.com/peanut-butter-flavoring-extract-4-oz.html

 

[RPh_Guy]

I got it on Amazon. The price fluctuates.

 

[g2rnewton]

Thanks for the tips. I am thinking about a similar peanut butter cup milk stout myself. Hoping to brew it in next couple weeks once I get supplies.

 

[CircaChris]

Perhaps pick some peanut brittle up at your local sweet shop and grate it into a powder. I can only imagine this would work and taste great. Why use flavoring when you can use the real thing.

 

[Metalchef1]

I'm not sure about the brittle.... I have never tried it but what gives brittle its flavor is baking soda and I'm not sure how that will age in the beer?

 

[RPh_Guy]

Perhaps pick some peanut brittle up at your local sweet shop and grate it into a powder. I can only imagine this would work and taste great. Why use flavoring when you can use the real thing.

Most people want to avoid adding oil/butter to beer since it supposedly kills head.
Plus peanut brittle has a bunch of sugar, salt, and baking soda -- none of which is desirable.

That's why people use de-oiled peanut flour or flavoring.

 

[CircaChris]

I can see why people would use denatured oil free peanut powder. I don’t percieve brittle as having too much oil left once baked into a solid state, but perhaps. As far as sugar, that is yeasts friend (food) and as for the small amount of salt, I actually condition my water with more salt than one would find in a brittle bar. (6 gallons = 1gm, yeasts enemy). A little salt doesn’t kill yeast. If this was the case my baked bread would never rise and I use alot of salt and half as much weight of yeast for my baguettes.

As for baking powder..... I have no idea what that is doing in the brittle, as brittle doesn’t need to rise. I’m sure brittle recipes vary but I see the problem that BP could present sitting in beer for an extended period of time.

 

[Metalchef1]

The baking powder is there for texture and distinct flavor of brittle.

Otherwise it would just be caramel and peanuts...

 

[urg8rb8]

I would take defatted peanut butter flower and throw it in some vodka.

 

[RPh_Guy]

I would take defatted peanut butter flower and throw it in some vodka.

Have you done this?

 

[urg8rb8]

Have you done this?

I've done the two cans of PB2 straight in the beer and it didn't do much. I asked about this and the common response was to use vodka. Interestingly enough, I ran into the brewer while at a brewery that was serving a PB Chocolate Stout where the PB was so pronounced. I asked the brewer and he told me to put the powder in vodka for a while to extract the flavors.