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10# Maris Otter
1.5# Roasted Barley
1.5# 90L Dark Crystal
.5# Chocolate Malt
1 oz. Fuggles @ 60 mins.

Mash at about 155-157* for extra sweetness.

Should make for a sweet stout, without adding the milk sugar. That's the goal anyways


Oh yeah...I'll be using a British Ale yeast...I like WLP002, but Titgemeier's doesn't carry White Labs anymore, so I'll grab whatever the equivalent is.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm, you come up with that on your own or is that adapted from something else.

Love the chocolate malt.... I might lean it closer to 1# and pull back on the roasted to about the same... but that's just me...

It was just something I whipped up using Beertools.com recipe calculator and trying to put together a sweet stout.

Designing Great Beers (AWESOME book, BTW) says that a sweet stout typically has Roasted at around 10% of the grist and some combination of Chocolate & Crystal are about 10% of the grist as well.

I could sub out some of the roasted for more chocolate, perhaps...I'm always apprehensive of doing that though. A little chocolate malt gives it an awesome chocolate flavor...too much seems to give it more coffee flavor...which is what the roasted will be doing. I just worry if I overdose on chocolate and get coffee from that & coffee from the roasted, I won't get any chocolate flavor?

I dunno...RDWHHB, I guess...I may keep the roasted the same and add the .5# of chocolate too

Only you two could make beer sound so geekarific.

Thanks for posting the Beertools.com Hammb. What a great sight. I signed up for a trial membership last night. Had a lot of fun playing around with it. Should help me create a much better beer? Did you buy the software/gold membership? Is it worth it?
Also do you buy most of your ingredients locally or online somewhere. The choice of malts and hops to use was quite extensive. The store I go to isn't really a home-brew store, it's a liquor store with a wall of supplies and maybe about 15-20 hop varieties and yeasts.

All I have is the free membership on BeerTools...it limits the number of ingredients you're allowed to put in for a recipe, but it's not bad.

They now have a gold level product that you actually install on your machine...I wonder if they have a trial version?

I have used the trial versions of both Beersmith & ProMash. ProMash was too complex for me, I didn't care for their GUI at all. I like Beersmith's product better, but not well enough to actually pay for. Besides the old school turn back your PC clock works for to keep the 30 day trial running forever

For simple recipes though I really like BeerTools.com; it just works. However, doing all grain I do need to fall back on one of the other products for information on how hot to make the water etc. They do calculations for you based on the temp of the grain/mashtun/amount of grain to tell you exactly how hot to heat your water to hit your mash temp. They also calculate grain absorption and other handy things that beertools.com doesn't have.

However, if you're still doing extract I found beertools.com to be an awesome site.

How did your recipe turnout Hammb?

Decided to make a Weizenbock this weekend. Used Beertools to make it up, Partial Mash. 100% compliant with the type, so I'm sure it will be spectacular.

1.0 English 2-row Pale
1.0 German Wheat Light
3.0 Caramel Wheat Malt
6.6 Copper Wheat Malt Extract
1oz Tettnanger Hop
1oz Willamette
1oz Cascade
Weihenstephan Weizen Yeast

only 292 calories.

It turned out pretty darn good, I must say

2 things I would do to improve it. One was that they didn't have enough Roasted barley to fulfill my original recipe plans, so I had to use a little less. It needs more roasted barley. Second it needs something for some body. It's a little o the thing side, and I like my stouts with more mouthfeel; oats, wheat, or even some Cara-Pils would've improved it I think.

Still, it's a pretty good beer.