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Boo-Hoo
Style: Milk Stout
Bentleybrau Brewery's Boo-Hoo
A milk stout fermented on ghost chiles and cocoa nibs.
Based on this: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/moo-hoo-clone-459159/
Partial Mash BIAB
Brewed: 2014-12-31
Target OG: 1.066
Strike hit: 69C
OG: 1.073
FG:
ABV:
BrewTarget Recipe:
Boo Hoo - Sweet Stout ================================================================================ Batch Size: 26,784 L Boil Size: 12,034 L Boil Time: 60,000 min Efficiency: 70% OG: 1,066 FG: 1,017 ABV: 5,9% Bitterness: 29,0 IBUs (Tinseth) Color: 41 SRM (Morey) Fermentables ================================================================================ Name Type Amount Mashed Late Yield Color Weyermann - Pale Ale Malt Grain 2,000 kg Yes No 85% 3 L Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L Grain 500,000 g Yes No 74% 80 L Milk Sugar (Lactose) Sugar 500,000 g No Yes 76% 0 L Chocolate Malt (UK) Grain 350,000 g Yes No 73% 450 L Carafa III Grain 200,000 g Yes No 70% 525 L Black Barley (Roast Barley) Grain 150,000 g Yes No 55% 500 L Dry Extract (DME) - Extra Light Dry Extract 2,500 kg No Yes 95% 3 L Barley, Flaked Grain 500,000 g Yes No 70% 2 L Total grain: 6,700 kg Hops ================================================================================ Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU Nugget 13,0% 24,000 g Boil 60,000 min Pellet 23,5 Willamette 5,0% 30,000 g Boil 15,000 min Pellet 5,6 Misc ================================================================================ Name Type Use Amount Time Ghost chile Other Primary 7,000 g 0,000 s Cocoa Nibs Herb Primary 225,000 g 0,000 s Yeast ================================================================================ Name Type Form Amount Stage Wyeast - British Ale Ale Liquid 125,000 mL Primary Mash ================================================================================ Name Type Amount Temp Target Time BIAB Infusion 9,158 L 80,046 C 70,000 C 60,000 min Instructions ================================================================================ 0) Add 2,000 kg Weyermann - Pale Ale Malt, 500,000 g Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L, 350,000 g Chocolate Malt (UK), 200,000 g Carafa III, 150,000 g Black Barley (Roast Barley), 500,000 g Barley, Flaked to the mash tun. 1) Bring 9,158 L water to 80,046 C for upcoming infusions. 2) Add 9,158 L water at 80,046 C to mash to bring it to 70,000 C. Hold for 60,000 min. 3) You should now have 5,143 L wort. Add 5,000 L water to the kettle, bringing pre-boil volume to 10,143 L. 4) Bring the wort to a boil and hold for 60,000 min. 5) Put 24,000 g Nugget into boil for 60,000 min. 6) Raise water to boil and then remove from heat. Stir in 2,500 kg Dry Extract (DME) - Extra Light, . 7) Put 30,000 g Willamette into boil for 15,000 min. 8) Stop boiling the wort. 9) Add 500,000 g Milk Sugar (Lactose), 2,500 kg Dry Extract (DME) - Extra Light, to the boil at knockout. 10) You should have 9,143 L wort post-boil. You anticipate losing 500,000 mL to trub and chiller loss. Add 16,250 L top up water into primary. The final volume in the primary is 24,893 L. 11) Cool wort and pitch Wyeast - British Ale Ale yeast, to the primary. 12) Put 7,000 g Ghost chile into primary for 0,000 s. 13) Put 225,000 g Cocoa Nibs into primary for 0,000 s. 14) Let ferment until FG is 1,017. 15) Transfer beer to secondary.
Brewday Notes:
Soaked cocoa nibs in vodka (lightly covered) in ziplock bag for 48 hours.
Made 2L starter 36 hours in advance.
Crushed grain extremely finely with Corona mill. Very floury.
Brought 9.150L to 81C.
Strike hit 69C after dough balls removed. Raised to 71C. Dropped to 68C over the hour.
Squeezed the living hell out of it, got 6L wort. “Sparged” bag with hot water bringing it up to 11L.
All according to plan for the boil.
Cooled to 25C, then topped up to 25L. Pitched yeast and nibs and ghost chile at 22C.
Sanitized raw chiles and sliced in half before tossing in. No boil.
Measured OG before yeast: 1.073.
Blow-off tube bubbling after 6 hours @ 22C.
Tasting Notes: