Question On Lactose Intolerant?

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  1. Larry82052

    Larry82052 Initiate (0) Feb 17, 2017 Texas

    I found out I am Lactose Intolerant,in fact I need to see if on my Espresso Stout Beer below if I can take the Lactose out and replace with Oatmeal for the Mouth-feel taste? Dang and this is great beer,all my friends love it,but I can't no more so I need ideas on ways I might change this recipe?
    1-lb & 8ozs Kilned Coffee Malt(3.0 SRM) Grain

    1-lb Chocolate Malt (Thomas Fawcett) Grain

    8.0 ozs Chateau Biscuit(25.4 SRM) Grain

    1-lb Dark DME Traditional(Dark)(8.0 SRM) Dry Extract

    6-lbs & 14.4 ozs of Pale Liquid Extract

    10.7 ozs Milk Sugar Lactose

    2.0 ozs East Kent Goldings (Hop) After Your Boil Starts(Boil 60 minutes)

    1 oz Fuggle (HOPS) Add last 15 Minutes Of Boil

    1 pkg of New World Strong Ale Yeast or A Nottingham Yeast packet)
     
    #1 Larry82052, Mar 24, 2017
  2. Tebuken

    Tebuken Initiate (0) Jun 6, 2009 Argentina

    Jus replace lactose with oats, you will lose a bit of swetness but nothing very different in the final beer
     
    #2 Tebuken, Mar 24, 2017
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  3. pweis909

    pweis909 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,250) Aug 13, 2005 Wisconsin
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    I prefer oatmeal stout to milk stout. That lactic sugar always seems out of place to my palate.

    Both flaked oats and biscuit malt are non-enzymatic and require mashing in order to convert sugars to starches. Some extract based recipes call for steeping specialty grains that are not converted, and you said you loved your stout, so maybe this is not an issue. You might just try adding flaked oats to your steeping grains.

    If you are unsatisfied with your results, or if you just happen to have an interest, you might do better with a partial mash, in which you add enough 2-row malt to help convert the starches in the non-enzymatic malts.
     
    #3 pweis909, Mar 24, 2017
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  4. popsicleian

    popsicleian Initiate (0) Jun 29, 2004 Minnesota

    Have you tried using Lactaid pills? I'm also lactose intolerant, but with Lactaid I can eat everything but ice cream. It's kind of a pain to have to take one every time you want a beer, but it's an option. I agree the oats are a good solution if you'd rather eliminate the lactose entirely.
     
    #4 popsicleian, Mar 24, 2017
  5. CarolusP

    CarolusP Zealot (590) Oct 22, 2015 Minnesota

    I've never tried this, but what about taking a bit of the wort in a small kettle on a stove, and reducing it down to a syrup? I believe this will caramelize some of the sugars, rendering them unfermentable. This may at least help replace some of the sweetness lost from the lack of lactose. It may add some more caramel character to the final product, which may or may not be desirable.
     
    #5 CarolusP, Mar 24, 2017
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