Over this last weekend, Lauren sort of jokingly said that she thinks our next beer should be a chocolate and peanut butter beer. I’m not sure where she came up with those flavors, but it made me wonder if it could be done. I’m no expert by any means, but I started working on a recipe for it. I know that chocolate flavors along with nuttiness will blend better in a darker beer. So I went with a porter base. I then looked at some other people’s recipes for chocolate porters and peanut butter porters and worked out the details.
Sort of. No one really knows how to get peanut butter into a beer because the oils in the peanut butter will kill your head retention. I am currently considering a powdered peanut product called PB2 as it is made by pressing the oils out of peanuts. Maybe that’s the key for putting peanuts in beer.
Anyway, I don’t really know what I am talking about, but I think I’ve pretty much finalized the recipe. It’s on the right over there. I also added BeerXML files for anyone who is using an app that supports those. Maybe I’ll start adding in the BeerSmith files as well. Maybe if someone asks.
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Interesing peanut butter/cocoa recipe. A couple of hints though. Add irish moss, cocoa, and pb at 15min left. I have done some mocha porters and the irish moss seems to absorb some of the oils from the cocoa. No problems with the head. Maybe 1 tsp of moss to get the peanut oils too. Cocoa is very bitter, with all those hops you are going to have a 70 IBU porter. I have used 1oz (by weight) of cocoa and the taste was overwhelming, I would suggest 2oz, otherwise the whole thing is going to be kind of muddy.
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