Ingredients
Steeping Grains
- 1 lb Chocolate Pre Malt
- 1 lb Belgian Chocolate Malt
- ~3/4 cup Old Fashioned Quaker Oats
1 oz NZ Super Alpha Hops (60 min)
1 oz Fuggle Hops (10 min)
4 oz Nestle Cocoa Powder (0 min)
1 lb Chocolate Nibs? (John forgot to write down the amount...) (Secondary)
Wyeast 1332 - Northwest Ale
O.G. ~1.049
F.G. ~1.018
A.B.V. ~4%
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I could explain every step that we went through, but that wouldn't be fun. We aren't scientists (well, John is, but he's not a beer scientist). We just want to get together and see how good of a beer we can put together. So times and temperatures aren't controlled down to the second and degree. We try to stay as close as we can, but hey, things
Part of the fun is naming our concoctions. We've had multiple named in reference to Ian, John's son, one based off of a nickname that Vanessa doesn't like, and another an old inside joke based off of the name we gave another (it would take too long to explain). It seems like half the time we just start throwing things out there, and this one of those times. Originally it was supposed to be a double chocolate stout. What one considers a double chocolate stout is up to their own definition, but as we were trying to think, one of us mistakenly said it should be a triple chocolate stout due to using three different kinds of chocolate. We then had to point out that there were actually going to be four different applications of "chocolate" (thought chocolate malt is not at all chocolate). So after a couple of failed attempts to combine chocolate and four into a phrase, we "settled" on C4 (not the explosive... never use explosives while brewing... ever).
It'll be ready in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know how it turned out then!
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