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I know a few of you make a peanut butter stout or porters. Any advice or recipes your willing to share? I want to make my girlfriend a beer and she is a peanut butter nut. I was thinking of modifying my chocolate stout recipe to use some peanut butter.

Don't do the method where you drain the oil from the peanut butter.

mr x wrote:Don't do the method where you drain the oil from the peanut butter.

+1 the oil is where the flavor is, like hops If you have a chocolate stout recipe you enjoy then use that as the base, no sense reinventing the wheel.

LiverDance wrote:

mr x wrote:Don't do the method where you drain the oil from the peanut butter.

+1 the oil is where the flavor is, like hops If you have a chocolate stout recipe you enjoy then use that as the base, no sense reinventing the wheel.

how much is good to add and at what point?

And has anyone tried dry nutting?

that just sounds wrong...

Graham.C wrote:And has anyone tried dry nutting?

there is an article about using nuts in the last BYO magazine. I'll try and scan it tomorrow at work for you.

I was talking to Jeff at the Noble Grape the other day and he was saying that he was planning on making a peantu butter beer using something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Torani-Peanut-But ... tter+Syrup" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And this thread <http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/chocola ... ut-361721/> recommends using peanut butter powder, like this: http://www.amazon.com/PB2-Powdered-Pean ... B002GJ9JWS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

LiverDance wrote:

Graham.C wrote:And has anyone tried dry nutting?

there is an article about using nuts in the last BYO magazine. I'll try and scan it tomorrow at work for you.

I have it, thanks. I was just curious about others experiences.

This peanut butter powder sounds quite interesting... less fat too apparently? I wonder if there is a source in Canada? I'm tempted to make a dark'ish (maybe a brown) beer for the fall, and peanut butter (protein is good for you!) added to the secondary or boil sounds awesome!

Edit.. read that HBT thread and the recipe notes here (http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/chocola ... ost4516823" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) talk about it needing a lot of time for the flavours to come together. Makes sense, I just don't want to wait that long.

Hoppy Brown it is!

TimG wrote:This peanut butter powder sounds quite interesting... less fat too apparently? I wonder if there is a source in Canada? I'm tempted to make a dark'ish (maybe a brown) beer for the fall, and peanut butter (protein is good for you!) added to the secondary or boil sounds awesome!

http://www.fitshop.ca/pb2-peanut-butter/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.lowcarbcanada.ca/product/BP-001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jimmy wrote:

TimG wrote:This peanut butter powder sounds quite interesting... less fat too apparently? I wonder if there is a source in Canada? I'm tempted to make a dark'ish (maybe a brown) beer for the fall, and peanut butter (protein is good for you!) added to the secondary or boil sounds awesome!

http://www.fitshop.ca/pb2-peanut-butter/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.lowcarbcanada.ca/product/BP-001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's a shame that stuff is at least 8% sugar, but maybe I'll try it anyways. I was also thinking of putting, crushed, dry roasted peanuts into the mash like the pecan's in the BYO article. Then again James at basic brewing radio was talking this morning about a nuttella beer he is making. That might be even better, maybe I will try using roasted hazel nuts with a chocolate stout. Hazel nut goes really good with coffee too... maybe a hazel mocha stout.

Any reason you don't want to use straight up peanut butter?

Jimmy wrote:Any reason you don't want to use straight up peanut butter?

I was going to, and still might, I was just curious what peoples take on using PB was.

Have you used it? At what point do you add it? Mash, 60min, flameout? I'm just not sure. In what quantities?

I haven't done it, but as far as I know, Liverdance has experimented and found regular peanut butter to work great. I've wanted to do a PB beer but haven't got around to it yet.

I used 8oz of peanut butter in the boil at flame out and got a nice dry PB taste in the beer. Not much nose to it but I recommend using some PB extract to add directly at kegging to help with that.

You could try making a peanut butter infused vodka.