Coopers Irish stout

[JeffDragon7]

Hi all
looking at my next kit brew and thinking Coopers premium Irish Stout.
anyone tried this ?
I was thinking of adding richies extra dark spray malt 1 kg. Is this to much

any thoughts greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

 

[Random Badger]

Hi all
looking at my next kit brew and thinking Coopers premium Irish Stout.
anyone tried this ?
I was thinking of adding richies extra dark spray malt 1 kg. Is this to much

any thoughts greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

I haven't made one yet, but I do have one sat here that I intend to brew in the near future.

Have you added a full kg of extra dark spray malt to a beer before? If you really like what it does then maybe put in the lot, but I would be inclined to add 0.5KG and use brewing sugar for the rest, which is more or less what you would get in a 1KG beer enhancer intended for dark beers. Or if you like a stronger beer, put in 0.5KG of the extra dark spray malt and a full 1KG of sugar.

 

[JeffDragon7]

I haven't made one yet, but I do have one sat here that I intend to brew in the near future.

Have you added a full kg of extra dark spray malt to a beer before? If you really like what it does then maybe put in the lot, but I would be inclined to add 0.5KG and use brewing sugar for the rest, which is more or less what you would get in a 1KG beer enhancer intended for dark beers. Or if you like a stronger beer, put in 0.5KG of the extra dark spray malt and a full 1KG of sugar.

Hi Mate,
not done anything yet just looking at the best way forward. I heard that this stout is a good one so I was looking at which is best addition

 

[Dicko]

Hi all
looking at my next kit brew and thinking Coopers premium Irish Stout.
anyone tried this ?
I was thinking of adding richies extra dark spray malt 1 kg. Is this to much

any thoughts greatly appreciated

thanks in advance

Hi jeff
I haven't made the coopers irish stout but I have made the regular coopers stout using a recipe a forum member named terrym offered me.
1 can coopers irish stout.
500g dark spray malt.
600g golden syrup.
100g dark muscavado sugar.
1 dessert spoon of treacle.
and 3 shots of strong fresh ground coffee.
As I say I've never made it with the irish stout but have used the recipe with the regular stout and it is superb.

Cheers Dicko

 

[JeffDragon7]

Hi jeff
I haven't made the coopers irish stout but I have made the regular coopers stout using a recipe a forum member named terrym offered me.
1 can coopers irish stout.
500g dark spray malt.
600g golden syrup.
100g dark muscavado sugar.
1 dessert spoon of treacle.
and 3 shots of strong fresh ground coffee.
As I say I've never made it with the irish stout but have used the recipe with the regular stout and it is superb.

Cheers Dicko

Thanks I’ll look into that

 

[mickthetrick]

ive made the irish stout and its a real nice pint. 1 kg of dark spray malt will be fine

 

[JeffDragon7]

What was ABV like Mick

 

[mickthetrick]

What was ABV like Mick

i cannot remember to be honest. was a good few years ago that i brewed it.

 

[MunchBrunch]

I made a toucan with coopers Irish stout, coopers dark ale and 1kg of dark spray malt. It's the best brew I've done, albeit I haven't been brewing for all that long!

 

[Rento]

I’ve done this quite a few times and love it, one of my favourite stouts. mostly been with 1kg of coopers brew enhancer 3 Which I believe is a combo of light spray malt, maltodextrine and dextrose.

I’d probably go half and half with brewing sugar, but it'd be fine with just the dark malt.

 

[Random Badger]

I made my Coopers Irish Stout kit on Friday with 1KG of Youngs Beer Enhancer and short brewed to 21 litres (it was 20 at the time of filling the fermenter, but when all the froth finally settled down it seemed to creep up to 21). Gravity looked to be about 1042. Today found that the fermentation had burst out through the airlock so it required a bit of a clean up and a fresh airlock due to all the black gunk! Replacement airlock currently bubbling away like mad.

 

[BridgeBrew]

I've made quite a few of these trying different additions. The best I've made was using the dark rock brew enhancer, 250 grams of cold steeped chocolate malt, and pure brew (that's included in the enhancer) brewed short to 21L. Better then Guinness imho.

 

[BridgeBrew]

A pint of moded Cooper's Irish. Bloody Beut !

 

[JeffDragon7]

A pint of moded Cooper's Irish. Bloody Beut !View attachment 46890

Can’t wait to try mine

 

[Random Badger]

Mine had been in the fermenter for two weeks and reading 1010 for a few days so I bottled it this evening. The early taste I had seemed promising, now just need to wait another four weeks for a proper go...

 

[micklupulo]

I am about to do my second batch of this having done it years ago with 1kg of extra dark spraymalf and 300gms of soft brown sugar which turned out well. I might also add some dark treacle and coffee this time but wonder what people's views are about whether these and the sugar should be boiled to be on the safe side though I realise that some flavour particularly with the coffee (to be made with Colombian ground) would be lost in the process.

 

[Dark Arts]

How much conditioning does the coopers irish stout need?

Ive tried a bottle 12days after bottling and I'm not impressed, tastes more like a dark mild to me, was expecting way better after seeing the reviews.

I brewed using the following
1x Coopers tin
600g Xdme
600g dex
100g wheat dme
Us-05
21ltrs

I've seen numerous reviews with this kit brewed from basic tin+T/sugar to added grains n chocolate nibs and they all say how good it it, so was expecting something better than what ive potentially ended up with.

 

[Clint]

I used to add a kilo and a half of malt extract of whatever I had and it always made a decent beer. Always used the kit yeast too which gave vicious fermentation!
Probably left it a bit longer than 12 days though! You can't really mess it up it's a solid kit...leave it a month and try again.

 

[old dog new tricks]

How much conditioning does the coopers irish stout need?

Ive tried a bottle 12days after bottling and I'm not impressed, tastes more like a dark mild to me, was expecting way better after seeing the reviews.

I brewed using the following
1x Coopers tin
600g Xdme
600g dex
100g wheat dme
Us-05
21ltrs

I've seen numerous reviews with this kit brewed from basic tin+T/sugar to added grains n chocolate nibs and they all say how good it it, so was expecting something better than what ive potentially ended up with.

Going to start this one at the weekend hopefully turns out ok I have few things to try

 

[Dark Arts]

Going to start this one at the weekend hopefully turns out ok I have few things to try

Hopefully yours turns out better than mine, I'm starting to think I need to get my head around the water chemistry, as all the porters n stouts ive done so far have been watery??? Strangely Im only having this issue with the malt x kits, the 2x all grain kits Ive done so far have been at the other end and been a bit chewy, which I prefer over the wateryness Im getting from the malt kits, I'm planning of making the next1 well short at say 10-11ltrs instead of the recommended 23ltrs see what happens