milk cocoa stout

[treydogg]

sup, I got a new beer my HBS calls it a sweet stout the half pound of lactos at the end of the boil makes me say its the same thing as a milk stout so what I want to know is if I add some Ghirardelli cocoa powder at the end would that be good and if so howmuch would you suggest i add the HBS did not say

[danno]

sweet stout and milk stout both refer to the same style, so you're right.

the amount of cocoa powder really depends on how much chocolate flavor you want in the beer. 4oz will be subtle, a pound will probably be too much. a quick google search for "chocolate stout recipe" yielded many pages of recipes, 8oz in 5 gal seemed to be fairly common...

[treydogg]

sup well I just made this beer yester day, I used 3/4 a cup of cocoa and a pound of lactos. Added it to my wort after boil of 7.5lbs of dark malt extract and I cant rember everything that was in the grain bill. I had to replace the fist thing of cocoa as it was sweetend went back to whole foods and paid more for unsweetend cocoa then I did for the sweet it came from holland or something.

[treydogg]

The GF put her purse on my primary and disrupted the pressure its been a few hours and it was bubbling very well before extreamly fast now nothing its pretty much dead. will it come back its only been bubbling i would say for 12 hours at best what do you think?

[toneyc]

It will be fine.

:)
Toney.

[treydogg]

I put this in secondary today and it tasted nothing like coco, the lactose made it taste a little lighter. So, I know it has some time to sit I was just wondering if you think the chocolate will come out later or should i have used more then the 3/4 cup of cocoa I put in at the end of boil?

[fretlessman71]

Better to undershoot than to overshoot. Flavors like that will take a while for them to come out. PATIENCE, my son... :D