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Fun and Flavorful Pastry Stouts with Great Notion (Audio)

If you'd like to watch the video, head to this link: https://beerandbrewing.com/great-notion-pastry-stouts-course/

In this 39-minute audio course, lead brewer Lara Hargrave walks us through each step of Great Notion’s production of dessert-driven stouts—beers such as Double Stack, their imperial breakfast stout with coffee and maple syrup. Along the way, she discusses:

• recipe development, from grist to adjuncts
• selecting dark malts that support and balance flavor adjuncts without clashing
• how to ensure a smooth lauter
• long boils, dark sugars, and malt extracts for flavor and body
• using slaked lime to balance acidic ingredients
• managing fermentation in a hostile environment for yeast
• using an adjunct tank for ingredients such as coconut and peanuts
• tips on working with coffee, nuts, marshmallow, coconut, and more
• the careful use of flavor extracts
• experimenting with different flavor adjuncts
• adding flavor adjuncts to barrel-aged stouts
• oily ingredients, volatile aromas, and other pitfalls
• And more.