Big Smoke – Underworld Milk Stout

Big Smoke – Underworld Milk Stout

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Underworld Milk Stout is brewed with lactose, vanilla pods, espresso and chocolate for a complex, creamy finish. It uses classic English hop varietal Fuggles for a gentle bitterness and soft aroma, with the hops taking a back seat to an aroma of freshly-pulled espresso coffee and sweet vanilla.



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Description

Big Smoke – Underworld Milk Stout

Big Smoke Brewing Company has been operating out of the former stables at the back of the Antelope pub in Surbiton, London since 2014. They aim to brew flavourful, seasonal and drinkable beers and their range represents years of tweaking, trialling and tasting – as well as feedback from their regulars at the pub! The majority of their output is sold at their two pubs, the Antelope, and the Albion in Kingston, although their beer can occasionally be found in other venues around London and beyond.


Ingredients Included

Crisp Maris Otter (3700 grams)
Weyermann® CaraRed® (220 grams)
Weyermann® CaraMunich® Type 2 (170 grams)
Weyermann® Carafa Special® Type 3 (160 grams)
Crisp Chocolate Malt (140 grams)
Crisp Roasted Barley (36 grams)
TMM Jumbo Oat Flakes 26 (240 grams)
Fuggles Pellets (39 grams)
SafAle™ S-04 11.5g (2 packs)
Lactose 500g (1 packs) Only 150g required for this recipe


Method

Beer Style (main): British Ales
Beer Style (sub): Sweet Stout or Cream Stout
Batch Size: 20L
Original Gravity: 1.056
Final Gravity: 1.018
ABV %: 5
IBU: 21

THE MASH
Temperature °C: 67
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60

Additions and timing:

5g Ground Coffee Beans – these should be added to the either the mash or boil.

60 mins Fuggles. 20g
30 mins. Fuggles. 12g
30 mins. Vanilla Pod. 4.5g (not included)
15 mins Organic Chocolate. 7.5g (not included)
15 mins Lactose. 150g

Secondary additions and timing:

N/A

Yeast: S-04 English Ale Yeast
Fermentation temperature/steps: Pitch at 18c, leave temperature to free rise. Cap at 21c until fermentation is complete.

Comments:

 

Underworld Milk Stout is brewed with lactose, vanilla pods, espresso and chocolate for a complex, creamy finish. It uses classic English hop varietal Fuggles for a gentle bitterness and soft aroma, with the hops taking a back seat to an aroma of freshly-pulled espresso coffee and sweet vanilla. The grist is complex and nuanced with most of the colour coming from the German Carafa Special III malt which helps keep the bitterness in check. Underworld has won several awards in its class and is a firm favourite of mine!

Note: This requires 7.5g of organic chocolate, 5g of ground coffee beans and 1 vanilla pod which are not included in this kit.

Every effort is made to match the brewery recipe precisely, but at times it maybe necessary to change some of the listed ingredients on the recipe to alternatives due to seasonality or availability, but in all cases we do our best replace with something that won’t impact on the overall taste and flavour of the beer.

Additional information

Weight 5.318 kg
Country of Origin GB
HS Code 2106909853

3 reviews for Big Smoke – Underworld Milk Stout

  1. alfred houghton (verified owner)

    brilliant, love it, the chocolate comes through very nice,
    i used
    2tsp coffe granuals to the mash ,instead of Ground Coffee Beans
    1 Vanilla Pod (not included)
    Organic Chocolate. 15g (not included)
    Lactose. 250g

  2. David Russell

    The recipe says 500g lactose only mentions 150g to the boil?

    • Robert Neale

      Hello David, It is because we pack lactose in 500g, use just 150g of it as instructed. Sorry for any confusion.

  3. Dave Monkhouse (verified owner)

    I gotta say I was expecting much more from this stout. I got the chocolate flavours but tbh e coffee additions it asks for is ridiculously small to get any flavour from and I wasted £6 on vanilla pods which also had zero chance of coming through to the final beer.
    On a separate note the head retention is awful- it literally looks like a pint of coke when poured. It’s not down to carbonation either as that was spot on using 2.5ml sugar per bottle. Perhaps it was the tiny amount of fat that went into it from the dark chocolate it calls for but I did use a chocolate that had the lowest fat content possible.
    Who knows but I won’t be doing this one again.

    • Robert Neale

      Hey Dave, sorry that you were less than impressed. Sometimes it just doesn’t go right, we tend to look at it as a learning experience rather than anything wasted. The recipe came from the actual brewery and we have had customers brew it successfully. However, if I was brewing it I certainly wouldn’t put any vanilla in the boil as the flavour tends to get completely washed out. Instead I would would soak the split beans in your chopped spirit and then add post fermentation where it can be dosed to taste. There are more tips in the book that the recipe came from here https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/camras-essential-home-brewing/

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