Adding Chocolate to beer

[Quin]

Why add lactose to the beer if you do not need to? Try making a beer mashed at a higher temp for more long chain carbohydrates to smooth it out, or add rye to help. Put the coco powder or cacao nibs in secondary only as as to not boil out any bitterness into your beer.

The only way to fix this batch is to wait for the hops bitterness to drop out or add some sweetness from lactose or other non-fermentable sugar.

I don't think mashing at a higher temp will help. This will increase the mouthfeel, but not necessarily the sweetness. If you taste maltodextrin powder, it's not very sweet.

You will get a perceived bitterness from either powder or nibs even from secondary. It's not a sweet product. Anything flavor the beer picks up will be accompanied by bitterness. Since you are picking up bitterness from chocolate, you have to reduce the hop bitterness.

[Billy Klubb]

Why add lactose to the beer if you do not need to? Try making a beer mashed at a higher temp for more long chain carbohydrates to smooth it out, or add rye to help. Put the coco powder or cacao nibs in secondary only as as to not boil out any bitterness into your beer.

don't tell anyone, but some of us still use extracts. and the lactose is good. don't fear the lactose.

[ipaisay2.0]

Why add lactose to the beer if you do not need to? Try making a beer mashed at a higher temp for more long chain carbohydrates to smooth it out, or add rye to help. Put the coco powder or cacao nibs in secondary only as as to not boil out any bitterness into your beer.

don't tell anyone, but some of us still use extracts. and the lactose is good. don't fear the lactose.

My ass fears the lactose. Don't tell anyone!

[Billy Klubb]

Why add lactose to the beer if you do not need to? Try making a beer mashed at a higher temp for more long chain carbohydrates to smooth it out, or add rye to help. Put the coco powder or cacao nibs in secondary only as as to not boil out any bitterness into your beer.

don't tell anyone, but some of us still use extracts. and the lactose is good. don't fear the lactose.

My ass fears the lactose. Don't tell anyone!

don't fear the wicked nasty gas & grizzillin' shits.

[philbrasil]

is 10 oz. of lactose too little? I never used it so I used restraint on my first batch of chocolate milk stout...... Can I add some more lactose on the secondary??

[Crinkle]

I always have added a pound, but alot of people just do half that, it should be fine.