planning on doing my 3rd brew and looking for some advice.
was thinking making it with the following
500mg dark spray malt
500mg Muttons beer enhancer
300mg of treacle.
should i leave the treacle out or increase or decrease the amount of malt and enhancer.
Just drinking a coopers kit now.
Coopers irish stout
1kg DME
60g brown malt
220g chocolate malt
One of my best brews yet!!! ;D
Quoteplanning on doing my 3rd brew and looking for some advice.
was thinking making it with the following
500mg dark spray malt
500mg Muttons beer enhancer
300mg of treacle.
should i leave the treacle out or increase or decrease the amount of malt and enhancer.
Muttons is that DME dressed as Lamb geddit?
Ok I'm not funny, why don't you do a split if you had a couple of 15 or 20 Litre buckets ideally, personally although I love treacle toffee, too much going on there with the treacle for me.
Let us know how it turns our what ever you decide.
I only got my gear today but i am also doing a coopers Irish stout with Ikg brew enhancer and small 454gr tin of lyles black treacle.Well thats the plan anyway ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLRCqSZywo
Have a butchers at this guy, he is a savage. ;D
Quotehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLRCqSZywo
Have a butchers at this guy, he is a savage. ;D
Plugging this guy will do nothing for those on the other post who are worried about volumes they are drinking and their weight, lol!!
oooh now i know where to look ;D
These stout threads made me go get one too. Very tasty!
It was made with:
kit
1kg light dry malt
200g carapils
100g chocolate grain
200g dextrose
10g fuggles - 20 min boil
10g fuggles - 5min boil
10g fuggles - dry hop
to 22Liters
fermented at 18, increased to 24 for last few days
4.5%
The one before was (also very tasty):
kit
500g dark dry malt
500g wheat dry malt
500g dextrose
to 22Liters
fermented at 18, increased to 24 for last few days
4.8%
made my stout tonight, used the Coopers kit http://www.homebrewwest.ie/coopers-original-stout-17-kg-11-p.asp
500g of dark spray malt
250g of dark brown sugar
250g of muttons beer enhancer
250g of treacle.
OG was 1040
23lt brew
That will be one Baa Baa batch of beeeer ;D
Coopers are probably wondering about the recent 1000% increase in demand for the Irish Stout Kit ;D
checked on my brew and it looks like a bomb went off inside.
took a reading and got 1010.
i would have expected it to be more around 1.020 a this stage (depending on temp)
Did you spin the hydrometer? or degas the sample?
ye always give it a spin when taking a reading.
did another one and its around the 1008 mark and temp is 18*.
Bottled the stout tonight, FG was 1006.
most of the brew went into brown 500ml btls with 1.5 drops.
had a 750 and 1lt glass btls and they got 2 drops, also had a 1lt plastic btl so put 3 drops into it.
next up the coopers dark ale.
Hey all so im gunna jump on the stout wagon too :D, im doin the coopers irish stout kit this weekend at some stage hopefully. I am thinking of using the can with 1.5kg of dark LME and Lyle's black treacle ;D, I just had a few questions for people with experience of this kit.
1. should I use the whole can of treacle (450g) or maybe 200g?
2. should I use WLP004 Irish Ale yeast or Safale US-05 yeast?
3. Should I still be keeping the fermenter at 18c or different?
Thanks in advance for the wise words of wisdom :D
go with the 200mg of treacle and see what you think, if you reckon it's not enough then add more on the next batch.
Ye seems the safest bet, and I have a feeling I will be brewing this Stout a few times ;D
Hi Rob
Have you brewed stout before?
Do you like treacle?
If the answer is yes then fire ahead!
For me I think it's important to work from a start point.
Why not brew this one as is supposed to be, this way you can make future changes and experiment with ingregients.
You should be able to decide if your going in the right direction.
Without contradicting myself. I would recommend adding The Dark LME.
Its a really good Kit
Damian
ye i like treacle and I like stout so I am thinking they will go well together ;D hopefully, Im still wondering which of the 2 yeasts would work best? or would there even be much of a difference?
1 - God, you lot love your treacle... ;D I don't so I'll keep my nose out of this one...
2 - On some other kits i'd swap out the yeast at the drop of a hat, but I stick with the kit yeast on this one.
It really does do a good job.
3 - I generally ferment the Irish stout kit at 20-22C
For something special try some chocolate grain, and lots of fuggles or east kent goldings
bottled on Jan 21st, left in the hot press till Thursday night the 31st, was this to long or is it ok.
put up in the attic straight from the HP.
pretty cold up in the attic atm, will that affect the beer at this stage.
plan on having one Friday the 8th.
Quotebottled on Jan 21st, left in the hot press till Thursday night the 31st, was this to long or is it ok.
put up in the attic straight from the HP.
pretty cold up in the attic atm, will that affect the beer at this stage.
plan on having one Friday the 8th.
What was your FG?
2 weeks min to bottle condition, I do a month
Crack one and see, if its still sweet it wasn't long enough
What was your FG?
2 weeks min to bottle condition, I do a month
Crack one and see, if its still sweet it wasn't long enough[/quote]
OG was 1040 and FG was 1006
nice brew at 4.4