Grandma Adeline's German Chocolate Cake
With Chocolate, Coconut & Vanilla
by Scott Galarowicz
A delicious Milk Stout reminiscent of Grandma's homemade German chocolate cake. This dessert beer made with cocoa powder, cacao nibs, vanilla, coconut, lactose and brown sugar is sure to be a sweet treat.
Recipe Details
Scaled down so you can brew your own 5 gallon batchSpecial ingredients
- 1lb Cocoa Powder (Boil)
- 8oz Cacao Nibs (Secondary)
- 3oz Vanilla Beans (Secondary)
- .5lbs Coconut Flour (Mash)
- 1.5lb Flaked Coconut (Secondary)
Yeast
- WLP-007 Dry English ALe
Malt bill
- .5lb Dark Chocolate Malt
- .5lb Chocolate Malt
- .5lb Roasted Barley
- .5lb Midnight Wheat
- 1.5lb Victory
- .25lb Lactose
- .25lb Dark Brown Sugar
- 1.5lb Aromatic Malt
- 1lb Rice Hulls
- 9lbs Ashburne Mild Malt
Boil time
- 60
Hop regimen
- 1.5oz Nugget @ 60 (30 IBU)
Gravity
- 16.8Plato/2Plato
IBU
- 30
ABV
- 8%
