brewing with peanuts/peanut butter

[Mylo]

Maybe with some nut extract? JP is also quite proficient at extracting the goodness out of nuts.


Mylo

[bone diggler]

I'm thinking of doing a porter/stout with a bulk of the grain bill being pale malt and honey malt, with chocolate malt and oats, perhaps candi sugar to jack up abv, probably just do some bittering hops millennium?. I have been de-oiling jars of natural peanut butter for a few months and plan on adding that to the mash and perhaps peanut butter extract to 2ndary if needed. I'm not trying to brew to specific style but instead a peanut butter cup interpreted at a beer. My inspiration is coming from Southern Tier's creme brule stout. Maybe I'll throw in some lactose for added sweetness. We'll see

[ChrisKennedy]

The powdered peanut butter was pretty good, though I would use more than one jar in a 5 gallon batch next time and do it in a milk stout. I might try to turn 5 gallons of my milk stout that I just brewed at the pub into a chocolate peanut butter milk stout, though I am not sure how it will work just adding it to a corny keg.

I used a very roasty american stout as the base for my first attempt, and while good, the bitterness of the chocolate, the hop bitterness, and the roasted malt bitterness all add up to be a bit overwhelming. I think a milk stout would be the perfect base for a peanut butter chocolate beer.

[Tarp Town]

Hey Chris, when did you add the PB powder?

[BadRock]

Hey Chris, when did you add the PB powder?

If I remember correctly he added it to his whirlpool.

[ChrisKennedy]

Hey Chris, when did you add the PB powder?

If I remember correctly he added it to his whirlpool.

I added half to the whirlpool, and then added the rest to secondary. I would probably add all of it to whirlpool next time as long as you get as much of the sludge it makes into your fermenter. Jamil recommends this method when using cocoa powder.

[Tarp Town]

Excellent, thank you. I found some PB & Chocolate PB powder on the eBay and have a hole burning in my paypal account.

[Tarp Town]

Oi. Tried a PB & Chocolate Sweet Stout yesterday. Challenging to say the least.

Too finely ground chocolate malts = stuck runoff

Added 2 jars of powdered PB at the last 5 mins of boil = stuck transfer to fermenter

Started boil with 6.5 gallons, ended boil with around 4. Biggest boil off ever with my system.

OG ended up at 1.110 and tasted pretty fucking good. Still stirring my big starter and crossing my fingers. But since the final vollume was low, I should be good according to Jamil's calculator. Thinking of adding some water to thin it out.

Let you know how it tastes in a few weeks. I want to see what the final gravity is before I decide on bottles or keg. Don't want to clog anything else up.