Peanut Butter Cup Porter

[Crut]

hey, sorry guys but Im from aus and the thought of peanut butter in a beer sounds disgusting! I hear that there are some commercial versions with peanut butter in the US, is this true? Does the oil from the nuts cause a problem with head retention? Do the peanuts really taste good? sorry but im going to need some convincing here. Ta

If you love PB and jelly as much as I do, you wouldnt think its that disgusting. And PB cups are my favorite candy so why not. I have heard of some brews of PB but not had the chance to get ahold of any or try them. I used honey raosted peanuts, spread them on a cookie sheet and roastted in the oven for 15-20 minutes, then chopped them in the food proccesor, and threw in the mash with the grains, mashed as normal and batch sparged. When it came time to boil, what little oil was floating around i tried to skim as much off as possible. Cracked on open for the sunday seesion, great head retention, no problems except PB taste was a lweaker than i wanted. This was purely a test run for me, and for the first test, it turned out dern nice.

[Stem]

OK, you convinced me, I might give it a go as I do like weird beers. What style goes best with peanuts? Something roasty? What about a peanut robust porter? or a peanut pale ale?

[Crut]

Like i said, i did a porter with cocoa powder for the choclatey flavors, and used chocalate malt for the roastyness. Give it a go and tweak it how you want it. Its always well worth thr trial and error to find a great final beer.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

I used honey raosted peanuts, spread them on a cookie sheet and roastted in the oven for 15-20 minutes, then chopped them in the food proccesor, and threw in the mash with the grains, mashed as normal and batch sparged. When it came time to boil, what little oil was floating around i tried to skim as much off as possible. Cracked on open for the sunday seesion, great head retention, no problems except PB taste was a lweaker than i wanted. This was purely a test run for me, and for the first test, it turned out dern nice.

This thread is awakening my interest in weird beers.

How much (many?) peanuts did you use?

[Crut]

I think I ended up using about 5lbs if I remember right, i'll have to check my laptop/promash. To be honest, if i did it again, i think I would order some PB extract rather than the peanuts. Having to skim the oil was just another time wasting step. But it did turn out nice and the head retention was no problem

[Crut]

Just because Vanna#1 got me going on this again, I think this will be next next brew, except in a 5 gal batch instead of a single gallon. Also I will be using PB extract instead of chopped and roasted peanuts. It was a lot of work skimming off the little bit of oil on the boil surface. I spent the last couple days tweaking my recipe so i can brew it next week.
I gotta have something to send out to Badrock and Vanna.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

Just because Vanna#1 got me going on this again, I think this will be next next brew, except in a 5 gal batch instead of a single gallon. Also I will be using PB extract instead of chopped and roasted peanuts. It was a lot of work skimming off the little bit of oil on the boil surface. I spent the last couple days tweaking my recipe so i can brew it next week.
I gotta have something to send out to Badrock and Vanna.

Keep us posted on how it turns out. It sounds interesting.