Young's Double Chocolate Stout Clone

Beer Recipes
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What do you all think about this as a starting point for trying to clone Young’s DCS?

OG: 1.066
FG: 1.020
IBU 25

66.7% English Pale Ale malt
6.7% flaked oats
6.7% carabrown
3.3% chocolate
3.3% dark chocolate
3.3% blackprinz
3.3% extra special malt
6.7% lactose

1/2 lb cocao powered

EKG @ 60 min

WLP002

2

BYO has a clone recipe online. No idea how good it is.I think it was in their “50 Clone Recipes” edition as well.

https://byo.com/videos/item/59-5-british-ale-clone-recipes

3

The side of the bottle reads that the recipe includes oats.  The BYO recipe doesn’t have oats.

4

Would you handle the cacao additions?  In the mash?  Whirlpool?  Combination?

5

In the fermentor.

6

I’ve used chocolate once. I added it at flameout. It clumped and stuck to the bottom. I recommend pulling a half gallon of wort and mixing it before adding.