How to Brew a PASTRY STOUT [Black Forest Cake🍫🍒]

Pastry Stouts are a new and fun way to incorperate your favorite dessert into a beer. Higher in ABV and a thick, full mouthfeel. Today I take a stab at brewing my own pastry stout, by infusing the flavors of Black Forest Cake, aka chocolate, cherry, and vanilla!
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Recipe for 5 gals (19L):
-10 gals (38L) Water
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30 LBS [13.6 KG] of Grains
-34% Pale malt
-34% Pilsner
-21% Flaked Oats
-3% Pale Chocolate
-2% Carafa II
-1% Caramunich
-1% Roasted Barley
- 4% Cherry Juice
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-1.25oz (35g) Warrior @90 mins
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-Slurry from smaller beer (US-05 Ale)
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Mash @ 158ºF (70ºC) for about 45 mins
Boil for 90 mins
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Ferment around 67ºF (~19C) for 14 Days
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Original Gravity: 1.120
Final Gravity: 1.053
ABV: 8.8% [Yes it is wrong in video]
IBUs: ~53
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[@Unsub-Me-Now]

Watched this while eating lunch alone at a Mexican restaurant. The server saw and said, are you watching someone drink beer on KZbin? I said, yes, but he also made that beer at home. She was like you can do that?!?!? Bahahaha blew that ladies mind

[@TheBruSho]

Hahah! That’s really funny. Tell her to watch Yeast and the Beast!

[@OscarOSullivan]

@@TheBruSho Disgusting beer style that needs to be banned

[@stillbald5827]

Ooooo, I’ve been wanting to brew a stout next. Looks like I found a good candidate! Thank you!

[@TheBruSho]

Let me know how it turns out!

[@gustag]

Will definetely try to do that

[@NWsmallbatchBrewing]

I really want to try this beer - looks super tasty

[@RecipeswithBen]

I love Stout season and I am going to brew a raspberry and chocolate stout this weekend. Great stuff as always, Cheers!

[@TheBruSho]

That sounds like a delicious combo, can’t wait to see the vid!

[@matthewkaiser310]

I'm a little late to the show, but glad I made it! This beer looks super good!! One of the best pastry stouts I have ever consumed was blueberry and vanilla. I need to try and make it myself. Cheers!!

[@5minutebrewery]

She looks great! Beautiful color and great foam. I especially love how it looks like this beer would keep its shape for a second if the glass disappeared 😂

[@TheBruSho]

Hahah! Thanks man

[@smaster15]

I brewed a chocolate orange oatmeal stout this holiday, kind of wishing I had made it into a pastry stout now!

[@dudestewbrews]

You continue to impress Trent. Looks like a delicious brew as always!

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you buddy!

[@TigerPat_9180]

Really Enjoyed Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠

[@rachelmalin8851]

Looks so good! Love cherry chocolate flavors! 😍🔥

[@rachelmalin8851]

Also the GBBO intro 🙌

[@TheBruSho]

@@rachelmalin8851 lol I hope I would get the Paul Hollywood handshake on this one

[@vanessacabello71]

Hi Brushow! I am man from India and I love beer very much. When I find your channel, I am so happy because you make home brewing simple for me. Because of you, I was able to change my life. Since the age of 8, I used to be a telemarketing scammer, but after watching your videos, I learned how to make local brews and now I run a successful brew business in my motherland, India. I not just brewing beer, but brewing a new life for myself. If you ever find yourself in India, Please stop by Bollywood Brews! We have your picture enshrined and a bust of your head at the counter. God bless you BruShow!

[@AlbeeSoaring]

I like black forest cake but absolutely love German chocolate cake. I think by next fall I should have enough brews under my belt to give it a shot.

[@AlbeeSoaring]

Had to come back and get a refresher to compare my German chocolate cake stout recipe to make sure I was listening.

[@TheApartmentBrewer]

Wow! That's an awesome brew, congrats on hitting that massive OG!

[@TheBruSho]

Thanks man! if only the FG would drop then we'd have some serious ABV!

[@Jrderueda80]

@thebrusho that look a great beer body.. thanks for the video

[@JoeWatts1]

Nice! That is a big beer!

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Dang Trent! That sounds absolutely delicious, I may need to try this myself! Cheers

[@TheBruSho]

Thanks buddy, would love to see your take on a pastry!

[@Bonzi_Buddy]

PASTRY STOUT = TOPS!

[@george_aurelius]

Looks awesome: all of a sudden, I'm thirsty.

[@HOMEBREW4LIFE]

killer video braj!

[@BrewabitRick]

Absolutely a proper effort. Looks like a great beer cheers 👍🍻

[@TheBruSho]

Cheers man thanks for watching!

[@gnomebrewing]

Took me way too long to get to this, but great video. Smart move on using only base malts in the first mash to avoid too low of a pH for the second. Sounds tasty AF!

[@tufaznail]

I'm just getting into this home brew stuff. Now, anytime I see any sort of liquid (beverages, soup, something someone's cooking on the cooking channel, melted slurpees), I instantly start wondering if it can be fermented and turned into a brew. I'm obsessed.

[@TheBruSho]

Haha yesss! That is exactly how I am

[@BEERNBBQBYLARRY]

That sure looks good. I enjoy a good big beer like this during winter too. Yum. Other ideas you ask? There was a brewpub I go to that brewed a pastry stout with tons of glazed donuts and maple. Was soooo good. (Hey, I’m a brewer. I can do make that at home!)

[@TheBruSho]

Yes dooo it! Sounds very tasty

[@functionalbrewing]

This looks delicious! @thebrusho - minute 3:56 made me chuckle 😂... one of those #tootrue moments we've all experienced!

[@TheBruSho]

Haha thanks so much! would love to see your take on a Pastry Stout

[@jmsnystrom]

Where's the cholo nibs? Super nice video again! This inspired me to brew a big 🍺. Did once a vanilla choko whiskey stout but it when it aged in the bottle the richness what's somewhat lost. I do not know why.

[@TheBruSho]

I thought about doing cocoa nibs in fermenter but it was chocolately enough for me, but totally give it a try. Not sure why yours lost richness either 😕

[@traythomason7458]

Was that a South-O glass I saw?!? My wife and I host Trivia and Bingo there every week! Great video, and trying this recipe soon!

[@TheBruSho]

Hah good eye, I am good friends with Trevor and the gang over there, will have to stop by Trivia night one week!

[@traythomason7458]

@@TheBruSho Small world! Trevor and that whole crew are awesome.. Be sure to introduce yourself when you come by!

[@miked.9364]

You shoulda toasted those oats!

[@enbi2499]

Thank you for your amazing tutorials. you are one of my favorite beertubers out there! :) just one question since i am about to brew my own pastry stout soon. isnt the IBU of 53 a bit high for a pastry stout? when you tasted that beer did you feel it was well balanced? and if how is that? i mean i can think of the yeast having a lower attenuation for more rest sugar since you didnt use any lactose.

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you so much! So in my opinion it had the right amount of bitterness. The higher alcohol content and residual sugars helped balanced it out so it didn't seem overly bitter. I really enjoyed this beer and still have some bottles saved, definitely share some pics of your pastry stout when its done!

[@edrozora]

Great video (as always)! You inspired me to put together a Chocolate pastry stout so that I can use my next beer's yeast cake. Hypothetically, if you leaned on bottle conditioning this beer, would you have added any fresh yeast? Seen a bunch of advice on adding yeast to the bottles individually, or adding to the fermenter right before bottling, and curious your thoughts.

[@TheBruSho]

TY! I've never had to add extra yeast to get bottle conditioning to work, as long as you add the right amount of sugar and can wait 2 weeks, it should be fine! I don't think even a big beer like this would matter, but could be wrong

[@patrickglaser1560]

Oof, I remember lifting my 15 gallon mash tun... my back hurt for a week thankfully the handles held

[@samt4489]

salted caramel cheesecake beer, please!

[@Fyrwulf]

Maybe I'm spoiled by all the Bottle Logic on my kill shelf, but my opinion on Pastry Stouts mirrors that of my opinion on Barleywines: the real deal BEGINS at 12%. That does look delicious, though, and I would happily drink a couple glasses if offered.

[@TheBruSho]

Haha I hear you, definitely want to try a barleywine sometime and really get that abv up!

[@ericenos1097]

Saranac brewing company makes an excellent black forest cake beer

[@trevgoldie]

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[@davidpestana5290]

what about using malt extract and then steeping grains ? so it is easier ?

[@trevgoldie]

I’m going back to purchase the claw hammer now

[@TheBruSho]

Awesome use the link in description if you do! I get a tiny kick back

[@GenusBrewing]

You get rain where you are too!?!

[@TheBruSho]

haha it is the 1 of 3 days that it rains in SoCal today

[@nicholaskarako5701]

Black Forest cake is really good and I I'm sure this beer was amazing, but I have always been a sucker for a carrot cake and personally a Hummingbird cake is way better than a Red velvet cake any day. The cake that is an mind feck is the Campbell's Tomato soup spiced cake with the chocolate butter cream frosting. You would never think spiced cake with tomato soup and chocolate butter cream frosting would actually be good much less amazing.

[@ilblance7755]

If you were bottling this recipe would you put the vodka and vanilla pod in at the "bulk priming " stage and how much priming sugar would you use

[@surangasammana2855]

I like your vidio 👍

[@suburban91]

When did the chocolate go in ?

[@Felklaw]

I love your videos, and was just talking about a black forest cake stout that I wanted to try to create a couple of weeks ago and this come up! I have one question though about this (and your other creations...) You say you use 4% of cherry juice in the total grain count of 30lbs. Does that mean 4% of 30lbs or is there a different measurement for the juices? Confuses me for when I'm trying to add it to Brewfather.

[@TheBruSho]

Hey! It’s % of total fermentables. I think I used a 32oz bottle of that helps

[@RegicideBrewing]

Dude! The way you do the reiteration mash, supper smart. I’ve never done a pastry stout but I’m def going to try this! General question around using the hop spider: do you notice a difference in using it vs just throwing them into the wort? I’ve noticed some weaker hop characteristic when I use a hop spider or hop bag vs just throwing them in; especially with dry hopping. Do you notice a difference or is it not enough to really think about? Cheers!

[@TheBruSho]

Thank you, and thanks for becoming a member! And yeah I have kind of noticed that too, but not a huge difference. I usually make sure to get my spoon in there and really make sure it’s infusing. But if you aren’t using pumps I would say just go for it right in the kettle for best results.

[@RegicideBrewing]

@@TheBruShoawesome man. And I’m “Tony Weatherington”, been a member for about a month btw. I just changed my KZbin profile to be named after my own home brewery “momboo brewing”. Named it this because that’s what my son used to call me when he first started talking “momboo”. Lol

[@TheBruSho]

@@RegicideBrewing got ya! Well thanks anyway appreciate the support man!

[@Snabelskorna]

You should make a shandy! Grapefruit flavoured, perhaps?

[@TheBruSho]

I made a blood orange radler video, did you see that? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnaqpn5mZZmHjpI&ab_channel=TheBruSho

[@Snabelskorna]

@@TheBruSho I found it minutes after I wrote the comment, haha! I would like to see you make all of it, though. I mean, making the lemonade yourself as well.

[@danbrown586]

Sounds delicious. Is it flaked oats in the grain bill, or flaked wheat? The video says the former, while the description the latter.

[@TheBruSho]

Should be flaked oats, in which ever is wrong hah sorry about that

[@thatoneguywithnointernet]

I've checked northern brewer website for stout recipes. And noticed you use that website. But when i wanted to see the recipe and chosen options to determine how much it'll cost me. It says ill need additional equipment. I thought i only need the beer making kit for stouts? Can you help me figure out what equipment ill need on top of the beer making kit for stouts?

[@guyinagarage571]

Dude, I so want to make this! I love stout, and I have a German ancestry. What could be better? :)

[@JimFosterVO]

Based on the volume of the mash and the volume of hops, I'm only getting a calculation of about 36.8 IBUs with theWarrior hops. Did the ones you use have a higher than typical AA%?

[@TheBruSho]

Not sure exactly but I’d say just your recipe to the bitterness you like. This amount was pretty good for me and for a sweeter beer. IBUs can be weird ha

[@tristansanchez1388]

Hey! Just curious if you made any PH adjustments to the water before mashing? Thxx

[@TheBruSho]

I do for most beers but usually for dark beers I don't need to, the dark malts drop the pH into the perfect range

[@tristansanchez1388]

Gotcha good to know. And are you using distilled water or tap?

[@TheBruSho]

@@tristansanchez1388 RO usually, sometimes distilled

[@alanmulryan]

Wonder would this benefit from the creaminess and mouthfeel from nitro?

[@TheBruSho]

I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt!

[@ilblance7755]

Wouldn't you have sanitation issues when you put the wort in a un-sanitized fermenter?

[@TheBruSho]

I just racked that previous clean beer off moments earlier and kept every sanitized when working with it so no infection issues. But definitely something to be mindful of.

[@SteveBenson]

I threw these numbers into Brewfather and it appears your yeast cake severely under performed the expected attenuation of a correct pitch of US-05. Is this something you do a lot? With the right amount of yeast I'm curious how close you would've been to the expected 11%+ and how that extra booziness would've meshed with the other ingredients. I might have to try this one out.

[@TheBruSho]

That's weird I was spot on OG/FG according to my beersmith recipe. I did majorily take a hit on efficiency (which I expected with all those grains) but I'd be curious if you brewed it to see if you got different results. let me know!

[@SteveBenson]

@@TheBruSho Interesting, the efficiency isn't the issue in this case, it's the yeast attenuation. I typically use Imperial Flagship (their version of US-05) and I guess it has a slightly higher abv tolerance at 12%. I'm due to brew a stout, I might have to give this a run. Cheers!

[@zachburton4190]

Hey I have a question about beer. I make cider and wine and I always degass them, even if I’m going to carbonate because the gasses can have a bit of an off flavor. I don’t really see people degass beer, regaurdless of kegging or not. I know it might be stupid to ask but you don’t have to degass beer do you? Or do you?? Lol

[@TheBruSho]

Hey thats a great question! Short answer is no you don't degas beer, mainly because oxidation can ruin the beer after fermentation (stale flavors, muted hop character, and sickly sweet finish). So ideally the beer never touches the air, and you go straight to carbonating with co2.

[@zachburton4190]

@@TheBruSho thanks so much! This channel is underrated I wish brew tube had more viewers and you reaped those rewards because you my friend deserve it. From your awesome recipes to your quality video making, shoot you even make me laugh quite a bit in some of your quirkier vids. Keep up the great work - a big time fan ❤️ (fairly long term at this point too about a year !)

[@TheBruSho]

@@zachburton4190 really appreciate this comment, makes it all worth it!

[@davidryan9992]

Did you pour that beer into a South O glass?

[@TheBruSho]

Good eye!

[@Jelmomovies]

You say 4% cherryjuice. Is that 4% of all liquid you add or? Grams just as barley etc

[@TheBruSho]

4% total fermentables

[@twistedtxb]

No.

[@TheBruSho]

Yes?