Dark Of The Moon Cream Stout

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Made a yeast starter 3 days before pitching. Used 2 tablespoons DME
and 1 cup water. Next time use 2 cups water. Crack all grains and
steep  for 30 minutes at about 160 degrees along with the calcium
carbonate. Strain out grains and sparge into about 2-1/2 gallons
pre-boiled water.  Total boil about 5 gallons. Add dry malt and
dextrin and bring to a boil.  Add 1/2 ounce  of  Eroica and 1/4 ounce
of Chinook  when  boil  starts.  30 minutes later  add  3/4  ounce
Nugget hops.  Chill  with  an  immersion chiller. Rack to a carboy,
fill to 5 gallons and let sit  overnight  to allow the trub to settle
out. The next morning rack it  to  a  plastic primary, pitched the
yeast starter, and add the 1 ounce of Cascades  and Eroica hops. I  had
originally planned for a single stage fermentation, with bottling  a
week after pitching. However, there was no time to bottle after a
week, so I racked to a secondary glass carboy to get the beer out of
the primary, which does not seal very well. The dry hopping should
have been done  in the secondary, but at the time I had no plans for
using one. I suspect the hops did not spend much time in contact with
the beer in the primary,  as they got pushed up by the krausen and
stuck to the walls. When I bottled 2 weeks after brewing, I tried  what
might be called "wet hopping." On the suggestion of sometime  brew
partner Mike Fetzer, I made a hop tea by steeping 1 ounce N.  Brewer in
2 cups water after the water had just stopped boiling. This  was kept
covered for about 10 minutes. I bottled half the batch, then  added the
hop tea and bottled the second half. The bottles aged in my  closet for
two weeks before tasting. This turned out to be a very  nice dry stout.
It is dark and thick, with a brown head that lasts to  the end and
sticks to the side of the glass. The "no tea" beer is not  terribly
aromatic, and has a noticable bitter aftertase. The "hop  tea" beer is
more aromatic, and has a smoother finish, with what I  think is a
better blend of flavors. My fiancee likes the "hop tea"  beer better as
well, but a friend who  only  likes  dark beers likes  the "no tea"
beer better. Original Gravity: 1.053 Final Gravity:  Recipe By     :
Micah Millspaw, Posted by Bob Jones  File
ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
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Calories: 25
Calories From Fat: <1
Total Fat: <1g
Cholesterol: <1mg
Sodium: 4.8mg
Potassium: 21.6mg
Carbohydrates: 5.3g
Fiber: <1g
Sugar: 1.6g
Protein: <1g