Sweet Tooth Pastry Stout All Grain Beer Recipe Kit

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Much like NEIPA, the Pastry Stout is yet another recent innovation and brewing trend that shows no signs of slowing. With a relatively high gravity, a dose of unfermentable lactose sugar and ingredients more common in baking than brewing, Sweet Tooth Pastry Stout is a glassful of awesome.

Starting as a sweet stout, this recipe then includes vanilla, cocoa and your choice of gourmet Silver Cloud flavoring extract - choose from hazelnut, oatmeal cookie or s'mores. Folding together all of these flavors creates a beer of great complexity with delicious notes of sweet pastries, a medium-heavy body and a pleasing, long finish.

Brewing Notes

  • Style: Sweet Stout - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
  • Fermentation Range: 65-70F
  • Original Gravity: 1.070
  • SRM: 32
  • IBUs: 35
  • ABV: 6.1%

Tasting Notes

  •  Aroma: Sweet malty aroma with medium-low roastiness. Prominent vanilla, chocolate and pastry-like nose dominates. No hop aroma.
  • Appearance: Jet black in color with a khaki-tan foam head.
  • Flavor: Moderately roasty with subtle caramel sweetness and flavors of various baked goods standing out - notably vanilla and chocolate. Medium sweetness with appropriate bitterness to balance.
  • Mouthfeel: Medium to medium-high body. Very smooth and silky on the palate leading to a long, lingering finish.

Additional information

SKU

Crushed: B11614

Unmilled: B11613

Beer Color Dark
Original Gravity

1.070

Total Time to Make 8 weeks
Regional Style USA
Alcohol Content Medium
Yield 5 Gallons
Beer Style Pastry Stout
Fermentation Type Ale
Beer Recipe Kit Instructions Click here for recipe kit instructions

Head Development Brewer Brad’s Notes:

“The brewing industry moves in mysterious ways, and the Pastry Stout is just the latest proof. Generally a big, sweet, boozy stout is used as the base for these beers, and then ingredients are added that you would much more often find in a kitchen rather than a brewery. Chocolate, vanilla, hazelnut… there are so many possibilities, and imagination is the only boundary. 

For our version of this emerging style, I have actually toned down the gravity of this beer to make it more sessionable, so its possible to enjoy more than just a little snifter before becoming overwhelmed by the often insanely high alcohol content. Expect this recipe to come in at just over 6% ABV, but still maintain a robust body and silky mouthfeel thanks to the indiscreet use of a combination of specialty grains, lactose, and a mash profile that favors the production of dextrins to maintain the “thick” mouthfeel synonymous with this style.

After the base beer has been fermented, the fun starts with a healthy addition of cacao nibs and vanilla to start to mold the flavor profile into what beer afficionados would recognize as a Pastry Stout. The final touch, however, is left to the brewer.

In this recipe, there are three choices of gourmet flavorings to tailor the final product just to your liking. The offerings of hazelnut, oatmeal cookie, and s’mores allow you to choose your own pastry adventure. I have recommended a starting point of 20ml of the flavorings to be added just before packaging as a baseline for the flavor. Likely, you will find that it needs more flavoring for the specific flavors to stand out, so we have included far more flavoring extract than you would need for a single 5 gallon batch. If you find the 20ml to be too subtle, add more to suit your taste.

Sweet Tooth Pastry Stout makes for the perfect nightcap, and also pairs well with a weekend breakfast... or a weekday breakfast - I won’t judge.”

Customer Reviews

Based on 8 reviews
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Jim B.
Sweet Tooth is a Winner

Outstanding kit and beer. Everything was as described. Chose the oatmeal cookie flavoring which turned out great. One of our favorite stouts and we will order this kit again.

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Jason E.
Tastes like pastry as recipe describes!

The recipe kit created a really solid stout with a good oatmeal cookie flavor (my selection). The only caveat to the kit is that I think the pastry flavors may be a bit strong for some ... we dialed back the amount we added into the batch (1/2) and felt the balance was better than if we had added all of it.

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George N.
Great stout! Will make it again.

I made this stout and it is better than any I have tasted at a microbrewery. I did not add the flavoring but the chocolaty taste and the vanilla work synergistically with the grain bill for a full bodied amazing stout. I hope to see a double or imperial version of this some time. Thank you northern brewer!

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Brent
Oatmeal Cookie Stout

It turned out great. I will do it again next year.

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Adem E.

Sweet Tooth Pastry Stout All Grain Beer Recipe Kit

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Customer Reviews

Based on 8 reviews
75%
(6)
25%
(2)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
J
Jim B.
Sweet Tooth is a Winner

Outstanding kit and beer. Everything was as described. Chose the oatmeal cookie flavoring which turned out great. One of our favorite stouts and we will order this kit again.

J
Jason E.
Tastes like pastry as recipe describes!

The recipe kit created a really solid stout with a good oatmeal cookie flavor (my selection). The only caveat to the kit is that I think the pastry flavors may be a bit strong for some ... we dialed back the amount we added into the batch (1/2) and felt the balance was better than if we had added all of it.

G
George N.
Great stout! Will make it again.

I made this stout and it is better than any I have tasted at a microbrewery. I did not add the flavoring but the chocolaty taste and the vanilla work synergistically with the grain bill for a full bodied amazing stout. I hope to see a double or imperial version of this some time. Thank you northern brewer!

B
Brent
Oatmeal Cookie Stout

It turned out great. I will do it again next year.

A
Adem E.

Sweet Tooth Pastry Stout All Grain Beer Recipe Kit