Stout kit

[G-Town Brewer]

I did the the regular Coopers Stout recently. B2B still had the Morgan's LME cans on sales when I bought it, so I used a can of the dark roasted LME in with the Stout. Added 200g of steeped Choc malt and used 04 English ale yeast, brewed a little short to 21l. Brewed this up with Christmas in mind, but thought I'd have a cheeky sample tonight after 3 weeks in bottle. Wow! It really is good and I mean really good. Gonna take some willpower holding off on these until Christmas.

 

[Nidger]

Did that last autumn, and it was very good indeed. I'd say the 500g of dextrose is right; I used 1kg and it might have made it a bit thin. Did take a little while after bottling for the body to develop. Only medium spraymalt in stock at the time, so went for that (500g). Your 1kg of extra dark should work a treat. Only my 4th brew, so was learning a lot. Cocoa taste not pronounced, but does come as it warms up in the glass.

Have fun with it. Please post a future update?

I used 1kg of brewing sugar with the Cooper's lager.
It was the stout and 1kg of extra dark malt extract I added 500g of sugar to

Edit, sorry, just re read your post and I obviously misunderstood


I've also ordered the mangrove jacks juicy IPA with 1.2kg of liquid light malt.
Looking forward to that

 

[Nidger]

Did that last autumn, and it was very good indeed. I'd say the 500g of dextrose is right; I used 1kg and it might have made it a bit thin. Did take a little while after bottling for the body to develop. Only medium spraymalt in stock at the time, so went for that (500g). Your 1kg of extra dark should work a treat. Only my 4th brew, so was learning a lot. Cocoa taste not pronounced, but does come as it warms up in the glass.

Have fun with it. Please post a future update?

Bottled it last night and probably drank about 1ltr
Obviously flat and warmish but not bad. Hint of chocolate and I think treacle.
I can't really compare it not being a stout drinker but so far so good and I'll report back in a few weeks when it's carbed and matured

 

[Nidger]

Did that last autumn, and it was very good indeed. I'd say the 500g of dextrose is right; I used 1kg and it might have made it a bit thin. Did take a little while after bottling for the body to develop. Only medium spraymalt in stock at the time, so went for that (500g). Your 1kg of extra dark should work a treat. Only my 4th brew, so was learning a lot. Cocoa taste not pronounced, but does come as it warms up in the glass.

Have fun with it. Please post a future update?

I put a 1ltr bottle in the fridge before my last night shift on Tuesday.
Early days I know but I thought I'd have a little tipple on my first night off yesterday.
I was very tired after only about 1.5 hours sleep
so around 6pm I drank the 1ltr of stout followed by a glass of home made red wine.
Then an early night.

It's very heavy, (ok it's a stout). And coupled with my tiredness, 1ltr was enough.
But I enjoyed it especially considering it's not matured.


I will probably make another.
I was thinking of brewing the bulldog easter chocolate stout but having read some bad reviews on here I'll stick to the Wilko one

 

[Tommo 2]

Sounds good but you probably went over board with the red wine then

 

[chrisbardell]

Thanks for the updates, Nidger. Sounds (and looks) really decent. I have 2 (glass) bottles of my first batch left, a year old this week. Saving them until Xmas to drink with my dad (regular Guinness drinker) who I haven’t seen since Bad Stuff Happened. I noticed every aspect of it improved with age, so really looking forward to trying it after a year in glass. Will come back with review. Hope your brew continues to improve. All the best.