Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Homebrew Digest #5643 (January 05, 2010)

HOMEBREW Digest #5643 Tue 05 January 2010


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Contents:
Re: Peanut Butter Stout (Dana Edgell)
Peanut Butter Porter (slaycock)
RE: Peanut Butter in Beer ("David Houseman")


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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:48:51 -0500
From: Dana Edgell <dedg at lle.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: Peanut Butter Stout

Brian,

Here is a link to a recipe for "Peanut Butter & Chocolate Sweet Stout"
that was published in BYO magazine.

http://www.byo.com/component/resource/article/825-homebrew-nation

Dana Edgell

> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:45:35 -0600
> From: Brian Dougan <dougan.brian at gmail.com>
> Subject: Peanut Butter
>
> Thinking of working up a peanut butter stout, anyone tried one of these
> before?
>
> -Brian
>
>

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:44:51 -0600 (CST)
From: slaycock at discoverynet.com
Subject: Peanut Butter Porter

Not that I'm really interested in making a peanut butter beer..
But I did a quick experiment with a half tsp of peanut butter in warm water.
Just dissolve your peanut butter in warm water, allow to sit and wait for
the oil to float to the surface of the water and skim (or pour)off.
That will remove the greater majority of the oil out of the peanut
butter. I expect that a fair amount of the "flavor" is contained in the
oil, but this process should work fine to minimize the head retention
problem. Now the question is how much peanut butter for a 5 gallon
batch...hmmm?
I always use organic natural peanut butter that has ZERO hydrogenated oils.

Steve in KC

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:23:04 -0500
From: "David Houseman" <david.houseman at verizon.net>
Subject: RE: Peanut Butter in Beer

I would have been concerned about the oils in peanut butter as well. But
after judging a couple excellent peanut butter beers (a chocolate peanut
butter porter was excellent), I talked to the brewers. They simply added
the peanut butter at the end of the boil. These beers did not have a
problem with head or its retention. So perhaps the concern over the oils
is over-stated. Similarly when adding coconut to a beer; I thought the
coconut oil would be a problem. It wasn't. Try it and see if there really
is a problem or if this is over-stated.

Dave Houseman

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End of HOMEBREW Digest #5643, 01/05/10
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