Coconut Milk Stout

Mash: I do BIAB so adjust for other methods. I mashed in at 150 degrees with 6 gallons. 45 minute rest. 15 minute vorlauf. 5 minute mashout. Then i pull my grains and sprage to reach 6.5 gallons preboil volume.

Boil: 90 minute boil. 2oz east kent goldings @ 60. 1 pound lactose sugar @ 15 minutes (this will increase gravity but is a non fermentable sugar). 2 tsp yeast nutrient @10. Chill to 170 for a 20 minute whirlpool where you add 2LB's of toasted coconut in a mesh bag. pull coconut and finish chilling. Finish knocking out into your fermenter, pitch yeast, aerate by shaking, put in fermentation chamber.

Ferment: Let ferment for 7 days then add 1LB of toasted coconut in a mesh bag as a dry hop for 4 days. Procedure for sanitizing coconut: Clean a large mesh bag with PBW and then soak in starsan. Toast your coconut until golden brown in the oven. Add toasted coconut to a large sanitized bowl and pour about 1oz of vodka over coconut. Stir in the vodka. (this helps sanitize coconut further even though the heat from toasting it should have killed most bacteria). Over a sanitized bowl, add your freshly toasted coconut to the sanitized bag and tie off. Let sit about 7 more days as fermentation might start again from the coconut. Raise fermentation to 70 degrees for 1 day as a diaceytl rest then cold crash and package.

NOTE: this has a huge coconut flavor and aroma. Also, this has a ton of chocolate flavor from the malt. If you prefer less coconut just dry hop with half the amount.