Coopers IPA Kit milkshake tweak help!

[Braedan]

Hi guys,

I've been following this page for a while getting lots of good tips and advice from other people's questions but this is my first time posting.

I've successfully brewed 4 kits so far and I feel now its time to start experimenting.
The beer I'm chasing is a Milkshake IPA, I visited the St Austell brewery in Cornwall and tried their Milkshake IPA from one of their small batch brews and was completely blown away. I know I won't get the same results from a kit brew and I am prepared for that. I have some questions about my additions.

I bought the Coopers I. P. A KIT along with 1kg of muntins medium spray malt, priming sugar for bottling, 1kg of lactose powder and 100g of citra hop pellets.

I know the recipe only asks for 500g spray malts but I've read in a few posts that people feel it could do with another 500g to make up 1kg.

I am unsure as to how much lactose powder I'll need for the type of beer I want and wondered if any of you guys have experimented with this before, would you add it to the boiling wort or at the bottling stage? And how much would you use?

I've also read that the kit could do with extra hop additions. I was planning on adding 25g of citra to the boiling wort and another 25g 3-4 days before bottling. Would this be too overpowering?

I'm happy to follow instructions from those who have experimented with this before and I'm happy to post my results once finished

I'm also tempted with the idea of using mangrove jack's passionfruit flavour boost but wondering if that would cause my fermenter to turn into a volcano of some sort due to all the sugar.

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated

 

[Vicente]

Hi there.
Did you try this ? I am wanting to go down the same route but using Mangrove Jacks juicy session ipa.

 

[Dutto]

Hmmm! A few questions:

1. Why on earth would you want to start experimenting after only four brews?
2. Why would you want to experiment when there are a thousand recipes already available?
3. Why would you want to conduct an experimental brew that may result in an uncontrollable fermentation?

My advice is simple:

1. Check out the Recipes section at the top of this page. (Method "Extract" and "Milkshake" gives two pages.)
2. Find a recipe that follows what you have available.
3. Follow the recipe to the letter.

When you have about a dozen or more successful brews under your belt, start experimenting!

Enjoy!

 

[Dutto]

Just seen the original Post was back in July 2019 and the lad was last on the site in August 2019!

Bugger! I wasted time doing the reply and that's another half-hour of my life that I won't get back!

 

[Richy25]

Let someone experiment if they want to!?!

 

[Winterbournebrewery]

Got to get the basics 1st. If you don’t understand the building blocks how can you then design & experiment ? Fair play for the enthusiastic approach though.

 

[Vicente]

Not sure if Breadan is still on this forum? But I’ve been brewing kits for a few years and have been experimenting with hop additions ( pellets and locally foraged) and just fancied trying a ‘milkshake ‘ I’ve got a couple bottles that I added the lactose as well as priming sugar to and will see what they turn out like next month?