re: Homebrewing: Official Recipe Thread (All-Grain & Extract)

Imperial Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout (All Grain)

I brewed this recipe for Zapps last year. It was a fun beer and turned out really well.

Batch Size: 6 Gallons
Target OG: 1.080
Target SRM: 44
Target IBU: 44

Mash @ 152 for 60 minutes

Grains:
11.5 lbs US 2 Row
3 lbs Flaked Barley
12 oz Chocolate 350L
12 oz Pale Chocolate
8 oz Crystal 80L
8 oz Special B
8 oz Roasted Barley
6 oz Crystal 60L

Hops and Boil Additions
.75 oz Magnum 14.7aa @ 60 minutes = 39.4 IBU
1 oz Cascade 6.10 aa @ 10 minutes = 4.4 IBU
8 oz Cocoa Powder
8 oz Lactose

Secondary:
1 lb PB2
8 oz PB2-Chocolate
2 Vanilla Bean Scrapings

Yeast:
Wyeast 1028 London Ale

Notes:
I really wanted more peanut butter flavor in this beer than I ended up with. It was there, but it was faint behind the chocolate and roast flavors.

Since brewing this I've read some brewers who have had success in getting a more pronounced peanut flavor by adding between 1 and 1.5 lbs of crushed unsalted Valencia roasted peanuts to the secondary. I will probably try this next time.