sam_outt
Apprentice
Hello, fellow brewers!
So I have a slight problem with my recipe. I am making a chocolate mint stout which requires some cacao powder (to be precise mint-cacao powder, you know the kind you mix with warm milk type) - which then includes sugars. So, I am adding the powder during boiling (approx. for 10min on the end of boil). How would you present this in your recipe when using Beersmith3? The "problem" is that the powder itself contains sugar, which is a fermentable. It says that the powder itself has 2.7oz of sugar in 3.5oz of powder (around 79% that is). So the recipe calls for 1.40oz of cacao powder and that would include around 1.10oz of sugar. Should I just add the cocoa as flavor in the recipe and then add the sugars separately using... sucrose, table sugar?
I mean the sugars has to be count for the recipe because otherwise I won't get the OG right. Also this would bring me to a situation where I am also struggling with the color (EBC), because the powder itself has some color too... but that's just a minor issue. I'm more concerned about the sugars and OG.
Thanks for help and cheers!
So I have a slight problem with my recipe. I am making a chocolate mint stout which requires some cacao powder (to be precise mint-cacao powder, you know the kind you mix with warm milk type) - which then includes sugars. So, I am adding the powder during boiling (approx. for 10min on the end of boil). How would you present this in your recipe when using Beersmith3? The "problem" is that the powder itself contains sugar, which is a fermentable. It says that the powder itself has 2.7oz of sugar in 3.5oz of powder (around 79% that is). So the recipe calls for 1.40oz of cacao powder and that would include around 1.10oz of sugar. Should I just add the cocoa as flavor in the recipe and then add the sugars separately using... sucrose, table sugar?
I mean the sugars has to be count for the recipe because otherwise I won't get the OG right. Also this would bring me to a situation where I am also struggling with the color (EBC), because the powder itself has some color too... but that's just a minor issue. I'm more concerned about the sugars and OG.
Thanks for help and cheers!