Nutella Milk/Oatmeal Stout - Extract

Nutella Milk/Oatmeal Stout
Style: Based on a highly modified Beamish Stout recipe.
Method: Partial Mash
Batch Size: 5 Gallon Batch

OG: 1.060
FG: 1.017
5.7% abv
SRM: 120
27 IBU

Efficiency: 75%

Grain Bill:
4.79# Light DME - 58.3%
5 oz. Roasted Barley - 3.8%
5 oz. Crystal malt 60 - 3.9%
2 oz. Carapils - 2.2%
7 oz. Black (Patent) malt (debittered) - 5.4%
8½ oz. Malted oats - 6.5%
13⅓ oz. Chocolate malt - 10.1%

Hop Bill:
⅓ oz. Challenger hops- 7.5% AA (60 minutes)
½ oz. EKG - 5% AA (60 minutes)
½ oz. Challenger hops- 7.5% AA (15 minutes)

Adjuncts:
4 oz. roasted hazelnuts (added to boil @ 30 min.s)
2 vanilla beans (added to boil @ 30 min.s)
2 oz. cocoa powder (at 0 minutes of boil)
7 oz. Molasses (added to boil @ 10 min.s) - 3.8%
8 oz. Milk Sugar/Lactose (added to boil @ 10 min.s) - 6.1%

in secondary, just before bottling, add:
½ oz. vanilla extract (homemade, soaked 4 vanilla beans in vodka for 2 weeks)
2 oz. hazelnut extract (homemade, 4 to 5 oz. pureed hazelnuts soaked in vodka for 2 weeks)
2 oz. chocolate extract (homemade, soaked cocoa nibs in vodka for 2 weeks)

Yeast: Irish Ale (Wyeast 1084)

Mash grains at 157-159, for 60 minutes. Batch sparge.
60 min boil, with timing of hop additions listed above.​

After fermentation is finished, add the extracts to beer and stir lightly, let sit an hour or two to allow any sediment to resettle, then bottle or keg.​

Lager at least 4 weeks; shorter lager times won't allow the extracts to effectively be​

My base recipe was a Beamish stout clone while adding lactose/oatmeal, the oatmeal to give it a chocolatey, thick body, and lactose to give a very sweet flavor.

I did have a problem getting CO2 to build in the bottles, after 10 days in the bottles, I opened each bottle up and dropped another sugar cube. (I use only flip-top bottles.) Problem solved. It's now well carbonated, which really allows the chocolate and vanilla aromas to come out.

2 weeks later and it was even creamier and smoother and tasted just like melting chocolate and vanilla mixed with a hazelnut shot... not exactly Nutella but as close to it as I can get. The aroma bursted with chocolate. Yum. Wish I could share more than just a visual of it.