Is it Possible to make an impy stout using a kit

[Fuzzy Growler]

Two tins of Cooper's and 3kg of malt...wonder what that would do?

Would you double up on the yeast too?

 

[terrym]

Deleted. Duplicate of wot @Linalmeemow said

 

[Clint]

Would you double up on the yeast too?

The Cooper's goes off like a rocket and is very good...I've done a fair few!
I recon the two kit yeasts might do it..

 

[Brewdogpunk]

I’m about to try out a Youngs American Mocha Porter coupled with a Cooper’s Stout kit combined, possibly with some additional sugar.
Fingers crossed

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

I’m about to try out a Youngs American Mocha Porter coupled with a Cooper’s Stout kit combined, possibly with some additional sugar.
Fingers crossed

Let me know how you get on mate

 

[sdt7618]

So some time ago I made this,

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/russian-imperial-stout.71200/
Was petty good.

 

[Stu123]

Festival do a really good IRS kit.

 

[Gibron]

Love brewings ris is exellent a little expensive but a quality kit
beerworks craft brewery series russian-imperial stout

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

Love brewings ris is exellent a little expensive but a quality kit
beerworks craft brewery series russian-imperial stout

Came across this today, sounds great

 

[Richard_H]

Love brewings ris is exellent a little expensive but a quality kit
beerworks craft brewery series russian-imperial stout

Brewed this once when it was in there sale, ended around 8% from memory, 5kg of stout extract gave it a very intense malt flavour that was also bitter. It did mellow though after a very long time conditioning in the bottle but I cant help feeling adding some lighter malt would balance the flavour but then your talking some serious £££ for a kit.

 

[Slid]

Is Cooper's a good stout to use is it worth using a more premium kit

The Coopers kits always did the job for me. Premium kits tend to just add a few grams of hops for dry-hopping. As this is pointless for the style, then the 3 Coopers kits could be the way to go.
I used to do a very good stout indeed with a Coopers Stout, a Wilko Stout and 1kg of sugar, to 27L. The recipe from the Coopers site seems to me to be an approach to doing something the same, but with a lot less water, to give a much heavier product.

 

[Fuzzy Growler]

The Coopers kits always did the job for me. Premium kits tend to just add a few grams of hops for dry-hopping. As this is pointless for the style, then the 3 Coopers kits could be the way to go.
I used to do a very good stout indeed with a Coopers Stout, a Wilko Stout and 1kg of sugar, to 27L. The recipe from the Coopers site seems to me to be an approach to doing something the same, but with a lot less water, to give a much heavier product.

Cheers slid....

 

[Brewdogpunk]

Currently brewing a dual kit of Youngs American Mocha Porter and a Coopers stout.
Added a further 1/2 Kg of dark brown sugar and 2 generous spoon fulls of fine ground coffee powder.

Only went to 20 litres and it started out at 1.076, so if I can get it sub 1.010 should be around 9%

took a quick tester this morning at 1.056 and it already tastes pretty rich

 

[Random Badger]

How much body (how heavy) do you want it? Three kits (or similar malt content) is going to make it very much a sipping beer in texture as well as strength, which may of course be what you want.

I recently made a Toucan of Morgans Dockside Stout 1.7KG, Morgans Ironbark Dark Ale 1.7KG, 1KG Brewing sugar to 23 litres which came out as 6% ABV. It's early days yet for tasting but it seems big and malty! I think that making it to (say) 20 litres would start getting towards Imperial Stout territory and I'm not sure I would personally want to make it much more malty than that if I'm going to drink pints of it.

 

[Brewdogpunk]

How much body (how heavy) do you want it? Three kits (or similar malt content) is going to make it very much a sipping beer in texture as well as strength, which may of course be what you want.

I recently made a Toucan of Morgans Dockside Stout 1.7KG, Morgans Ironbark Dark Ale 1.7KG, 1KG Brewing sugar to 23 litres which came out as 6% ABV. It's early days yet for tasting but it seems big and malty! I think that making it to (say) 20 litres would start getting towards Imperial Stout territory and I'm not sure I would personally want to make it much more malty than that if I'm going to drink pints of it.

For me, personally, I’m aiming for an Imperial stout (as per the title of this thread).
I’m hoping the 2 kits used will give plenty of flavour and body, but no, this won’t be a session drink by any stretch of the imagination

 

[Brewdogpunk]

So, the brew has gone nicely but seems to have stalled.

Started out at 1.076 and chugged along nicely until 1.032, at which point I added the coopers yeast to give it a kick start.

It has now gotten down to 1.022, where it has now remained static for 3 days.

It’s been at a constant 22 degrees throughout.

Any thoughts on what I could do to get it going again? It’s sitting just above 7% now so I could leave it at that, but I’m concerned about bottling.

Should I warm it up slightly in the hope of getting the yeast working again?