How about adding .5 lb of oatmeal cookies to a 5 gallon batch of American brown ale to make it a Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale?
or you could just try this:
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Celebration Ale – Maltose Falcons
Addingmcookies will add fat and oils…don’t do it. Use Drew’s recipe.
+1. Below is a run-of-the-mill oatmeal raisin cookie home recipe. Everything but the eggs and butter look OK (if adjusted to proper proportions). But a commercial cookie is gonna have all kinds of emulsified this and hydrogenated that in it. No bueno.
1/2 Cup(s) (1 stick) plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
3/4 Cup(s) firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 Cup(s) granulated sugar
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon(s) vanilla
1-1/2 Cup(s) all-purpose flour
1 Teaspoon(s) Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon(s) salt (optional)
3 Cup(s) Quaker[emoji2400] Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1 Cup(s) raisins
To design a recipe from scratch start with the idea of what you want the finished beer to taste like. In this case, Oatmeal Cookie. Make a list of the flavors you associate with oatmeal cookies. Sweetness for sure but what else? Brown sugar or molasses? Raisins? A nutty flavor? After you have a clear idea of what flavors you want to achieve it’s time to pick out the ingredients that will provide those characteristics. This will require some knowledge and understanding of the various ingredients… what they bring to the table and how they work with each other. You probably won’t hit it on your first attempt but that’s the fun of it.
I know buying prepared food off the shelf and unloading it into a beer is all the rage right now but as you can see from posts above this forum is generally not full of brewers who share that view.
I’m not a big fan of it myself and definitely do not want to open a bottle and find chunks of cookie or whatever at the bottom of my glass–which is happening with increasing frequency. As a brewer I feel like I would rather have better control on what I am putting into my beer and creating those flavors from raw ingredients. I have more fun working on a recipe than buying a box of cookies off the shelf and a lot more pride in crafting that beer.
But you may feel differently and if it is something you want to do it is as easy as pouring in some cookies and giving it a taste after a few days to see if you need to add more.
thanks guys for the info. this is a recipe i found from 2014 from when I started brewing, am not sure where i got it I showed this recipe to a Club member and he showed me the way. Oatmeal cookies are made from a recipe, so is beer so to make it tast like an Oatmeal cookie I need to just add those ingrediencies as if I were making a batch of oatmeal cookies. Of course minus the butter and things that you don’t want in your brew.
He is giving a class on how to create a recipe and is using this recipe that I showed him as how to Not do it.
good lesson for me.
I have also gone the route of simply pairing a beer style with the food to get a nice result. Perhaps a nice milk stout pairing with those cookies might be worth trying?
Just like clam chowder with a Saison, rather than clam chowder Saison? (Apologies to Drew Beechum!) ;D
I’m with you!
And to the OP, recreate the experience, not the ingredients.