Milk Stout Recipe

If you are a conventional beer drinker, then the Milk Stout would surely be your favourite. I have brewed milk stouts many times at home and even treated my non-brewing friends to them. I was introduced to milk stouts by my grandfather, who used to brew them at home. When I grew up, he shared the recipe with me and I learnt to brew stouts in different ways.

In this article, I will discuss the milk stout recipe and various methods for preparing it.

Milk stouts, also known as cream stouts, are rich, chocolatey, and roasted, with hints of coffee and caramel present in them. There is only a subtle difference between milk stout and traditional dry stouts. The milk sugar balances the roasted bitterness present in stouts, resulting in a smoother version.

Ingredients required for Milk Stout Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Pale malt	6.5lbs(2.9kg)
Crystal Malt	8 oz (0.22kg)
Roasted black un malted barley	6 oz (0.17kg)
7 AAU Kent Goldings hops	1.4oz / 40 g of 5% alpha acids
London Ale yeast	Wyeast 1028
Lactose ( boiled for 10 minutes, added at kegging)	12 oz.

Specifications

All grain	5 gallons/19 litre
OG	1.041
FG	1.015
IBU	27
SRM	29
ABV	3.4%

Milk Stout Recipe

1. Mash the grains, place them in a grain bag, and steep them in 2.5 gallons(9.5 l) of 170°F (77 °C) water. The strike temperature should be 152°F (67 °C).
2. Wait for the conversion for 2 hours.
3. Raise the temperature to 168°F or 76°C for the mashout.
4. Hold 10 minutes.
5. Sparge with about 5 gallons of water. Boil it for 1.5 hours.
6. Add hops at 45 minutes.
7. Ferment at 65°F or 18°C, then rack to secondary and let it age for several weeks.
8. Store or keg the beer with lactose.

Now that you know how to brew a milk stout or sweet stout, you should know about the different varieties of it. Some of the famous ones are Chocolate Milk Stout, Coffee Milk Stout, Imperial Milk Stout, Oatmeal Milk Stout, and Peanut Butter Milk Stout.

Let’s learn about these recipes one step at a time.

1. Chocolate Milk Stout Recipe

This beer is full of chocolate flavour, and you can enjoy it in the winter.

Ingredients used in Chocolate Milk Stout Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Flaked oats	1
Carafa 1	1
Pale Chocolate	1
Chocolate Wheat	1
Crystal	4 oz
Honey	1
Lactose	3
Yeast	Safale 04
2- Row	6
Munich	2
For Hops	1 oz Liberty @40 minutes

Specifications

OG	1 : 099
FG	1: 030
ABV	9.0 %
IBUs	10
SRM	61
Yeast Pitch Rate	.79M cells/ml
Starter	No
Form	Dry
Attentuation	74%
Fermentation temperature	67 F allowed to free rise to 72 F

How much time will it take?

It may take 2 to 3 weeks to craft a delicious chocolate milk stout.

Chocolate Milk Stout Recipe :

1. Mash grains @ 160F for 60 minutes.
2. Soak 4 oz of cocoa nibs in 6 oz of Vodka in a mason jar for one week.
3. After primary fermentation, add the coca nibs and vodka to the beer and let it age for 2 – 3 weeks.
4. Your roasty beer with chocolate would be ready after a lapse of several weeks

Nutritional Value of Chocolate Milk Stout Recipe

Calories	165
Carbohydrates	15 g

2. Coffee Milk Stout Recipe

This recipe is heavy on the chocolate and light on the roast. You will get a very smooth beer with the addition of cold-infused coffee, which would be easy and tasty to drink.

Ingredients used in Coffee Milk Stout Recipe :

Ingredients	Amount
Pale Malt	5 kg
Chocolate Malt	650 g
CaraWheat	350 g
Black (patent) Malt	150 g
Lactose	450 g
Pacific Jade Hops	18 g
Large plunger of ground coffee	1
Irish Moss(optional)	1 teaspoon
Mangrove Jack’s M15 Empire Ale Yeast	2 packets

Specifications

OG	1.058 – 1.065
FG	1.020
IBU	23
ABV	Approx 6.1 %
Volume	23 litres

Coffee Milk Stout Recipe

1. Mash the grains at 68 degrees C in 18 L of water.
2. Sparge and bring to a boil. Just as it begins to boil, add lactose.
3. Boil for 90 minutes, adding Pacific Jade Hops at 60 minutes.
4. After 15 minutes of boiling, add Irish Moss.
5. Immediately cool your mort to 20 degrees C and pitch 2 packets of M15 Ale Yeast.
6. Ferment at 18 degree C for 10 days.
7. Once active fermentation is complete, transfer to a second fermenter and add the cold-infused coffee. ( Place 10 heaped tbsp of plunger ground coffee filled with cold water and leave it overnight to infuse. Do this after 1 week of fermentation.)
8. Leave to blend in with the beer for 7 days.
9. Bottle or keg as usual.

How much time will it take?

It usually takes around 2 to 3 weeks.

Nutritional Facts of Coffee Milk Stout Recipe

Calories	150
Carbohydrates	16 g

3. Imperial Milk Stout Recipe

Vanilla and milk stout make a good pair for a slightly sweet beer.

Ingredients required for Imperial Milk Stout Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Crisp Maris Otter	12 lb (63.6%)
Flaked barley	3 lb ( 15.9 %)
Crisp crystal 60	6 oz (2.0%)
Crisp Crystal 120	8 oz (2.6%)
Special B – Caramel Malt	8 oz ( 2.6%)
Crisp chocolate malt	12 oz (4.0%)
Crisp Pale chocolate malt	12 oz (4.0%)
Crisp Roasted barley	8 oz (2.6%)
Magnum(12.5%)added during boil, boiled 60 mins	0.75 oz (42.9%)
Irish Moss added during boil, boiled 15 mins	1 ea
Cascade leaf (5.7%) added during boil boiled 10 mins	1 oz(57.1%)
Lactose	8 oz (2.6%)
Wyeast nutrient added during boil, boiled 10 mins	0.75 tsp
Wyeast 1968 London ESB Ale 1200 ml	1 each
Cascade leaf (5.7%) added during boil, boiled 10 mins	3 each
Epsom salts	2 g
Gypsum	2.0 g
Calcium chloride	4.0 g
Baking soda	4.0 g

Specifications

Volume	5.57 gallons
Original gravity	1.077
Terminal gravity	1.028
Color	34.63
Alcohol	6.52%
Bitterness	39.2 %
Efficiency	64%
Boil length	60 minutes

How much time will it take

For a perfect beer, a month would be sufficient for ageing it.

Imperial Milk Stout Recipe

1. Add all the salts to the grist before mashing in.
2. Allow 60-minute saccharification rest at 152 degrees F and 10-minute mash-out rest at 170 degrees F.
3. Sparge at 170 degrees F and collect sufficient pre-runnings to hit pre-boil volumes.
4. Chill wort to 64 degrees F and pitch yeast slurry.
5. After setting the temperature controller to 66 degrees F, let it rise to that temperature.
6. Ferment at 66 -68 degrees F untithe the beer is 2 – 6 points from terminal gravity, then raise the temperature to 72 degrees F for 2 days.
7. Chill fermenter to 34%. Rack beer off yeast into a clean container with bourbon-soaked vanilla beans.
8. Age 1 month on vanilla before packaging.

Nutritional Information of Imperial Milk Stout Recipe

Calories	278
Carbohydrates	27 g

4. Oatmeal Milk Stout Recipe

Oatmeal stout is very popular among homebrewers. If the very thought of oatmeal tickles your nostrils, then check out the following recipe for Oatmeal Milk Stout.

Ingredients required for Oatmeal Milk Stout Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Dry malt extract	6 lbs amber
Crystal malt, 60 degree Lovibond	1 lb
American six row pale ale melt	1.5 lb
Oatmeal	18 oz
Chocolate malt	0.5 lb
Roasted barley	0.5 lb
Irish moss, for 15 min	1/2 tsp
Fuggles hop pellets (4.2% alpha acids)	2 oz
Irish ale yeast	Wyeast 1084

Specifications

Volume	5 gallons
OG	1.054
IBU	34

How much time will it take?

Ideally, 2 or 3 weeks is sufficient to get a perfect beer.

Oatmeal Milk Stout Recipe

1. The grains are mashed prior to the addition of the dry malt extract.
2. Before a day or two of brewing, prepare a yeast starter
3. Crush the speciality grains and malt. Mix them with the oats in a coarse nylon bag. Seal the nylon bag.
4. Heat 3 gallons of water to 155 degrees F in a pot with a lid and add the bag of grains. Keep this pot covered, maintaining a temperature between 150 and 158 degrees F for 1 hour to convert the starch.
5. This can be done by placing the entire pot in an oven preheated to 150 degrees F.
6. Remove the grain bag and pour rinse water over it and into the pot so it rinses some of the residual sugars from the grains.
7. In a separate pot, boil 3 gallons of water for 15 minutes.
8. Add two of these gallons to a clean and sanitised fermenter.
9. Keep the other gallon of water covered and reserve it.
10. Bring the wort to a boil and slowly but vigorously mix in the dry malt extract. Boil the wort vigorously for 15 minutes and add the hops. Boil for an additional 30 minutes.
11. Add Irish moss and boil for 15 minutes. Total time for boiling is 60 minutes. Cool the wort to room temperature within 30 minutes of the end of boiling.
12. Siphon the wort off the trub into the fermenter, adding the reserved water as necessary to bring the final wort volume to 5.5 gallons.
13. Aerate the wort for 15 minutes. Mix the yeast starter into the wort.
14. Seal the fermenter with an airlock and ferment until completion.

Nutritional Information of Oatmeal Milk Stout Recipe

Calories	178
Carbohydrates	16.9 g

5. Peanut Butter Milk Stout Recipe

Peanut butter is like liquid gold and is quite mouth-watering.. Check out the following recipe for a barely sweet and peanut-intensive flavoured milk stout recipe.

Ingredients required for Peanut Butter Milk Stout Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Pale Maris Otter Malt	7 lb
Flaked barley	1 lb
Caramel 80L	12 oz
Carafa Type 3 Malt	8 oz
CaraFoam	8 oz
Chocolate Malt	8 oz
Lactose( boil for5 minutes)	1 lb
Cocoa powder (boil for 5 mins)	4 oz
Cocoa Nibs (secondary fermentation)	4 oz
Natural peanut butter extract	4 oz
HOPS East Kent Golding ( 60 min)	1.50 oz

Specifications

Target OG	1.064
Target FG	1.022
Target ABV	4.5 %
IBUs	27
SRM	33.8
Mash Temp	152 degree
Mash time	60 min
Boil Time	60 min
Primary fermentation temperature	62 – 68 degree
Secondary fermentation temperature	68 degree

How much time will it take

Secondary fermentation is for 14 days s,, so 3 to 4 weeks is an ideal time for getting a good beer.

Peanut Butter Milk Stout Recipe

1. You can add unsweetened cocoa powder to the boil or cocoa nibs to the secondary fermenter.
2. On day 14 or when you find obvious signs of active fermentation being finished and stabilised for at least 3 days, the beer should be racked into the secondary fermenter.
3. Now add 4 oz of the liquid peanut butter extract.
4. Before packaging, allow the beer to beer to remain in the secondary fermenter for 14 days.
5. Lactose addition can be cut if you don’t want as much sweetness.
6. Also, soak the cocoa nibs in a few ounces of off-flavourless vodka for at least 5 days before adding to the secondary.

Nutritional information of Peanut butter Milk Stout Recipe

Calories	160 estimates
Serving size	12 fl oz