Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:31 pm
I brewed an oatmeal chocolate peanut butter stout a while ago and it was ok (so, nut butter instead of strait nuts). I used natural peanut butter and let the oil separate for a while and put paper towels on it to wick off as much oil as I could, then added it at flame out. There was definitely a peanut aspect to the beer, not sure if that was a good thing or not. The biggest problem I saw as head retention was almost completely destroyed. I brew the base beer regularly so I know what the head usually looks like.
Maybe toasting the nuts whole and adding them would work better. My only thought on adding it to the mash might be that the boil would blow off all the nutty aromatics you might want to get from the nuts in the finished product.
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