Just did this with 1kg extra dark spraymalt and half kg dextrose. Batch primed and bottled with 85g dextrose. Seems my bottles are taking ages to firm up tried one after four days and very little fizz. Was I too stingy with the priming sugar or am I too impatient? This is only my second brew my first(youngs ipa) carbonated a lot quicker.
I sampled mine from the keg 3 days in to see if it was carbonating and was surprised to find how drinkable it was. Never been able to start drinking a beer so early.This will be my Christmas beer so hopefully it'll be good to go in 3 weeks or so.
Gents,
quick question has anyone tried pouring in some freshly made filter coffee. Waas going to do 500g Extra Dark Spray malt, 250g treacle, 250g brown sugar and 1 litre of filtered coffee at 22l.
What sthe thoughts on the coffee
Kimo
Co-incidently I have put another Coopers Original Stout into my FV this afternoon, which uses coffee as an 'extra'.Gents,
quick question has anyone tried pouring in some freshly made filter coffee. Waas going to do 500g Extra Dark Spray malt, 250g treacle, 250g brown sugar and 1 litre of filtered coffee at 22l.
What sthe thoughts on the coffee
Kimo
Co-incidently I have put another Coopers Original Stout into my FV this afternoon, which uses coffee as an 'extra'.
I have copied my last one which has now nearly gone.
- One kit can and yeast
- 500g Golden Syrup
- 500g Dark DME
- 100g Dark Muscovado sugar (not ordinary 'Brown Sugar')
- 3 measures of espresso from my machine (each measure from a level coffee measuring spoon of strong Italian Roast coffee)
- 1 tsp yeast nutrient
Brewed short to 19 litres; OG about 1047. Now sitting in the water bath at 20*C.
I put the last one into a barrel and surprisingly it was drinkable after three days, although now about two months on it has lost it's initial fruity taste and has mellowed into an all round decent stout without any of the 'extras' dominating.
If the first part of the primary is the same as last time, the krausen will just touch the lid of my FV and I won't need the blow off tube; that's why I went for 19 litres
'Ready to drink' espresso from my machine (which is a small version of the machines in coffee shops). If you haven't got a machine any coffee making kit will do, cafetiere, filter etc. The other point is that the ground coffee I use is intensely flavoured, so if I had used a mild ground coffee I would have probably used more rather than only three measures.Terry,
when u say you used espreso I take it it was ready to drink esspreso in the cup that you had made up and not just the ground coffee powder dry? How did it turn out?
Kimosabby
Drawbacks - One can plus additions at 19 litres has hit the lid my 25 litre FV on both occasions (although it didn't quite need a blow off tube tbf), so unless you have a very large FV you might need to take that into account if you do 2 cans at 25 litres.If this turn out well was thinking of using 2 cans with about 25l or am I asking for trouble. What you reckon are the draw backs Kimosabby
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