Jovial Brews

Recipe for Punch Drunk Love

This Valentine’s Day themed cherry chocolate stout is pretty straight forward. I used the clone recipe for Young’s Double Chocolate Stout from the Brew Your Own magazine, but added 3 pounds of pureed cherries in secondary. Also we’ll be experimenting with adding rose water once it comes off.

Ingredients:

• .5 oz Light DME
• 4 lb 2 oz Light LME (late)

• 8 oz 2 row pale malt
• 11 oz crystal malt 60 °L
• 13 oz chocolate malt

• 12 oz lactose
• 8 oz invert sugar
• 4 oz cane sugar

• 6 oz cocoa powder (late)
• 1 tsp Irish moss (late)
• 1/8 tsp yeast nutrients (late)

• 2 oz 86% cocoa chocolate bar (secondary)
• 3 lbs cherry puree (secondary)

• 7 AAU Fuggles hops, 1.6 oz at 4.2% (60 min)
• 1.25 AAU Kent Goldings hops, .25 oz at 5% (15 min)

• Wyeast 1318

Steps:

• Steep grains at 155 °F for 45 minutes
• Sparge
• Add DME and sugars
• Boil
• Add Fuggles
• With 15 minutes left, add Kent Goldings, LME, cocoa powder, Irish moss and yeast nutrients
• Chill
• Pitch yeast, aerate
• Ferment at 68 °F/20 °C
• Add cherries and chocolate (melted in double boiler) in secondary

OG: 1.059