Aldi Adjuncts - Flavoured Extracts 26/6

[doon]

From what I can find people are also adding actual bacon bits to either boil or secondary

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Dry-hogging? Genius!

 

[doon]

Guessing fat would kill head retention

 

[stakka82]

Has anyone got a bit of experience using essences? I picked up the maple, hazlenut, coffee and chocolate.

Want to hit a 10 litre test batch of stout with the coffee. Am thinking maybe 1 ml per litre, 10 mls all up, thoughts?

 

[lukiferj]

I picked up some maple, hazelnut and chocolate. Might make a smoked maple brown or amber ale this weekend.

 

[stakka82]

What dosage are you planning?

 

[brettprevans]

What dosage are you planning?

did u read the prev page?

 

[lukiferj]

Only after a hint of flavour so will probably use about 10 mls in a keg and scale up from there. I reckon 20 mls will be close to perfect but not keen on blowing a whole keg to start with. Can add more straight into the keg and see how it goes.

 

[Samuel Adams]

I picked up some maple, hazelnut and chocolate. Might make a smoked maple brown or amber ale this weekend.

Did you use smoked malt or peated malt ?
I'm wondering which one I should use for my smoked/bacon, maple beer.

 

[tiprya]

The normal beechwood smoked malt smells very similar to bacon. Peated malt is going to smell like an islay whiskey.

 

[Samuel Adams]

I get my grain from craftbrewer and they have weyermann smoked malt so I'll go with that, cheers.
Going to use about 20% smoked.

 

[stakka82]

did u read the prev page?

Sorry missed it. I'll go for 10mls per 20l then i reckon.

 

[lukiferj]

I get my grain from craftbrewer and they have weyermann smoked malt so I'll go with that, cheers.
Going to use about 20% smoked.

Didn't have enough ale malt on hand so hopefully will brew next week. Have Wey smoked malt. Haven't decided how much yet but I want it to be a hint of smokiness with maple rather than drinking from an ashtray. I used under 5% in a smoked brown ale and I think it was too much. Wasn;t bad but certainly overpowering and much more than I would like in this one. WIll go a bit less this time and see how it tastes.

 

[brettprevans]

I have a very strong flavoured choc stout. Heaps of choc. And its about 8%.
Used 4 drops of hazelnut essence in 600ml. Gave a subtle hazelnut flavour. This stuff is strong to fight against all the choc I have in this stout so if u had a regular beer it wouldnt take.much. id do as said and err on the side of cautio . Add a little then a little more bit by bit until u hit the profile your after.

 

[brettprevans]

Coffee extract is slightly less potent. Might need a bit more of that than the hazelnut.

 

[Samuel Adams]

Didn't have enough ale malt on hand so hopefully will brew next week. Have Wey smoked malt. Haven't decided how much yet but I want it to be a hint of smokiness with maple rather than drinking from an ashtray. I used under 5% in a smoked brown ale and I think it was too much. Wasn;t bad but certainly overpowering and much more than I would like in this one. WIll go a bit less this time and see how it tastes.

Interesting....I based my smoked malt % based on what I read here - http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/59528-rogue-bacon-maple-ale/

 

[Batz]

I grabbed a few at Aldi's yesterday, very keen to try the chocolate in a stout..

Craftbrewer sell a hazelnut extract and recommend 1/2 a bottle to start with.

http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=3084

Beware that CB bottle is 25ml and Aldi's is 100ml.

Batz

 

[punkin]

If you thick shake guys are keen enough Glen 20 is 60% a/v :chug:

 

[lukiferj]

Interesting....I based my smoked malt % based on what I read here - http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/59528-rogue-bacon-maple-ale/

:icon_offtopic: This is the grain bill I used for a brown ale I made a few months ago. Was good but smokiness was slightly over powering for what I was after. I will be a little cautious this time and tweak the recipe for next time. I bought a few bottles different extracts

Grain Bill
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3.977 kg Pale Malt (79.6%)
0.448 kg Crystal 60 (8.96%)
0.348 kg Chocolate (6.97%)
0.224 kg Smoked Malt (4.48%)

 

[Batz]

OK I have a Czech pilsner I brewed a few months ago on tap ATM, I just put two drops of Aldi chocolate extract into my glass and filled it. Very close example of a commercial beer I tried recently, I'm going to add it to one of the kegs that I'm yet to tap. Nice, fun sort of beer and easy azz.

Batz