Cooper Irish Milk Chocolate Stout

[benji]

Just brewed this recipe today

1 x 1.5kg Coopers Irish Stout
1 kilo Dark Spraymalt
250g lactose (was gonna put in 500g but Gary advised it was a bit to sweet for him)
200g Hersey's chocolate syrup
250g of chocolate crushed grain (steeped for 30 mins)

my OG finised at 1045
I plan on adding chocolate essence when bottling.

Hopefully this will turn out something like Youngs Double Chocolate Stout which I love.

[Blueshed]

would love a bottle of this, looks like it's going to be nice. try and keep me one and we swap a bottle or two.

[LordEoin]

I suppose it will mostly depend on how Hershey's chocolate syrup ferments.
I'd imagine it's quite oily with a lot of preservatives

[benji]

@blueshed no problems mate I'll keep a few for you,

Hershey's chocolate syrup ingredients: High fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, cocoa (8%), salt, emulsifier (xanthan gum E415); Vanillin, artificial flavour.

Some geezer from NZ on youtube made a similar using the hersey's syrup and it came out pretty good for him so I guess we'll just have to wait an see

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

hmmm
I received a coopers irish stout kit in the post today, my plan is to steep some chocolate grain beforehand, use 1kg DME and maybe 250grm Demerara and dry hop with fuggles.  Your Hersheys idea has got me thinkin though . . . .

[Ciderhead]

FS some fellas spend their wages as soon as they get them in the pub, yours is in the HBC

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Pity its not in the HSBC instead of the HBC and I could still be earning some interest off it at least!

[Ciderhead]

You and Pob are gonna be raided by revenue with the amount of hooch you are creating at the moment

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

say nothin 

[Ciderhead]

[Garry]

hmmm
I received a coopers irish stout kit in the post today, my plan is to steep some chocolate grain beforehand, use 1kg DME and maybe 250grm Demerara and dry hop with fuggles.  Your Hersheys idea has got me thinkin though . . . .

Your recipe sounds good until you mention Hersey's? By all means give it a try, but It's easy to get carried away. The first stout kit I hacked, I went mad! Choc malt, honey, treacle, brown sugar, cocoa power, dry hopped with i don't remember and peanuts...... I drank it, but no one else would!!

Now I just go for 1 or 2 additions, and you can appreciate what they are adding to the kit ☺

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

yeah, Hersheys got me thinkin but i reckon I'll stick with my original recipe

[Ciderhead]

hmmm
I received a coopers irish stout kit in the post today, my plan is to steep some chocolate grain beforehand, use 1kg DME and maybe 250grm Demerara and dry hop with fuggles.  Your Hersheys idea has got me thinkin though . . . .

The first stout kit I hacked, I went mad! Choc malt, honey, treacle, brown sugar, cocoa power, dry hopped with i don't remember and peanuts...... I drank it, but no one else would!!

Whoa you gave me some of that as a favour for a drop I did, I couldn't drink it but the jacks has never flushed better  
Only joking Gar, but when I read stuff like this I just think of pineapple chunks.

[Shanna]

Everybody is a critic I did a coopers stout kit before with chocolate sauce. I used it in my bottling bucket instead of sugar when priming. It was not great initially but after six months in the dark and cold of my shed it improved no end. 

Shanna

[nigel_c]

God I hate the stuff.
So fake its almost sickening. Sorry, if it turned out well in the beer congrats. I just have a personal intolerance to Herseys.