
Roasted barley is the key ingredient in making stouts. Here is an interesting chocolate stout recipe!:
Chocolate Stout
by Mark Sullivan, Chesapeake Real Ale Brewers (CRAB)
Taken from "More Homebrew Favorites", by Lutzen & Stevens.
Ingredients:
0.75 pounds Crystal malt
0.5 pounds Roasted barley
0.33 pounds Black patent malt
4 lbs Dark DME
3.3 lbs Dark malt syrup
6 tsp Gypsum
1 oz Northern Brewer hops (7-11% AA)
8 tbsp Hershey's unsweetened cocoa
1.50 oz Fuggles hops (4-6% AA), seperated into 2 equal piles
One package Wyeast 1318; London Ale II
Brewer's Notes:
Steep grains in 2 gallons of 160 degree F water for 20 minutes. Remove the grains and discard, and bring the water to a boil. Remove from heat.
Add the extracts and the gypsum, and bring the wort back up to a boil. Once it is boiling, set a timer for 60 minutes, and add the Northern Brewer hops. Boil for 20 minutes, and add 0.75 ounces of Fuggles hops.After 30 more minutes, add the remainder of the Fuggles hops. Boil for an additional 10 minutes and remove from heat.
Pitch the yeast as standard. Primary fermentation should take about 5 days. Secondary should take about a week. Prime with 0.5 cup corn sugar and bottle. Age as needed.
This recipe is a bit extrapolated by me. The original syrup listed to use was a hopped extract, but I have always preferred adding my own hops. The first addition of Fuggles is my way of compensating for the lack of hopped syrup.
Secondly, the yeast strain is my own addition as well. The original recipe does not specify a variety to use, so I made the decision. Pretty much any American or British strain would be an acceptable substitution.
Other products in the category Beer Brewing / Specialty Grains:
Light Crystal Malt, 20 Lov. -- Adds a subtle caramel sweetness and light color to beer. Helps with head retention. Also known as light carastan or caramel malt.
Light Crystal Malt, 40 Lov. -- This fully modified and saccharified 2-row crystal adds caramel sweetness and a light amber color to your beer. Also helps with head retention. A versitile malt providing moderate color and caramel flavor. Also known as carastan, or caramel malt
Medium Crystal Malt, 60 Lov. -- Similar to crystal 40 but with a more extensive roasting. Has a more pronounced caramel flavor to coincide with the color.
Dark Crystal Malt, 90 Lov. -- Adds strongly caramelized flavor and reddish hues to beer.
Dark Crystal Malt, 120 Lov. -- Highly carmelized for dark beers. Fairly intense toffee flavor and quite dark.
Chocolate Malt -- Adds a chocolate flavor note as well as a deep amber to brown color. 500 Lovibond
Black Barley Malt -- This malted grain is kilned to high temperatures giving a black, charred appearance to any beer in which this grain is used, The acrid, sometimes smokey flavor is prime charectoristics of porters and stouts.
Cara-Pils® (Dextrin) Malt -- Also called Dextrin malt. Adds body, foam retention, without influencing color or flavor. Used to upgrade all types of light colored beers (standard, premium, light, low alcohol, no alcohol, etc.).
Black Patent Malt -- Used in Stouts and Porters for deep black color annd toasty character. In larger amounts, adds an astringent bite.
Canadian Honey Malt -- Imparts a sweet, nutty, toasted flavor. 20 Lov. From Gambrinus-also called "Brumalt".
Victory (Biscuit) Malt -- Victory® Malt is a fully modified product which receives additional processing. Contributes a warm, toasted, nutty flavor to beer. The malt provides a deep golden brown color. Toasted pale malt.APPLICATIONS: use where a recipe calls for toasted malt
German Rauch (Smoked) Malt -- German smoked malt used in smoked beers. (use 2-3 lbs per 5 gallons). Perfect for Rauchbeers and Smoked Porters. 25 Lov.
UK Peated Smoked Malt -- Brings a peat smoked character to your beer. Use 4-8 oz., mashed with other grains, per 5 gallons of beer. 2.8 Lov.
German Karaffe Malt -- A light colored chocolate malt from Germany
Special Roast -- Imparts a "biscuit" flavor. 50 Lov. Distinctive orange-red'ish color. Excellent for nut brown ales (5-10%), porters (5-10%)
Belgian Special B -- Adds an intense caramel and nutty flavor profile. (use 2-8% of total grain bill). 75-150 Lov.