Super sweet cream stout critique?

Do you keg? You can always arrest the fermentation with some potassium metabisulfite and then force carb it when you deem it sweet enough but not too sweet.

Commercial beers that are sweet must have a high FG. I don't see a beer with an FG of 1.012 ever coming off as sweet. If Dark Lord is around 1.060, then Creme Brulee must be at least 1.030 FG.

 

Uh...You have a stout with no roast? or chocolate?

Add a half pound of chocolate, plus a half of roast. Since your doing this all grain why not just make a reasonable recipe, and mash real high and use a less attenuative yeast? Mash at 158, use a bunch of flaked barley, and ferment with 1728 for a lower attenuation. Here what I would start with-

70% maris otter
10% english medium crystal
10% flaked barley
5% roast
5% chocolate
1/2lb of lactose in 3 gallons

Mash at 158F, ferment with 1728

It will be sweet, but with a thick body to hold up the flavor and feel maltier than just sugar sweet.

Just my two cents.

 

Basic comments on your recipe...
1) Since its a stout, you might want to add some roasted grains to it e.g. Pale Chocolate, Chocolate, Coffee, Black Patent, etc.
2) Replace your American 2-row pale with Marris Otter or a more flavorful base malt
3) Up your lactose to 1.25 or 1.5 lbs (Per 5 gallong batch) EDIT: Saw yours is for 3 gal...
4) Ferment with a yeast like London Ale III that will leave more residual sugar in the beer (Lower Attenuation) than US-05, which will chug through your wort.
5) You could carmelize some sugar and add some vanilla beans, since creme brulee has a very strong carmelized sugar and vanilla heavy flavor to me

 

Vanilla will help. I just thought of this but I would carbonate on the low side to help out the mouthfeel.

 

I like the idea of vanilla. This will play nice with the lactose, and will SOOO improve the mouthfeel with a velvet quality.

It's going to be difficult to capture that charred caramel flavor that you get with creme brulee. Blowtorch the wort!

 

Or perhaps boil the bejeezus out of some first runnings.