Adding chocolate (Cocoa) to kit beer?
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graysalchemy
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No reason why not but I wouldn't use drinking chocolate, cocoa nibs would be better. :thumb:
alanywiseman.
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I added 250g of Cocoa powder (bournville) to 2 cans of cooper stout and 2kg fermentable (50:50 sugar and spraymalt). So it was not a normal brew by any means but the chocolate added a strong bitterness that was different from the astringent bitterness of the dark malts. You may have better success with using cocoa nibs like GA says and I would add them near the end of fermentation or even post fermentation. The alcohol in the brew will help pull the flavour from the cocoa nibs.
I am currently doing this but with a wine so it is a bit different.
I am currently doing this but with a wine so it is a bit different.
EskiBrew
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I used Hershey's Chocolate Syrup tin 453g in a chocolate vanilla porter and it worked out just fine. Chocolate taste was just there and not overpowering. Being syrup it also added extra fermentables. I have even heard of people using this syrup as priming sugar when bottling.
EskiBrew
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Spursmatt said:
I think you'd get a better response if you start a new thread.
When you say quickest... quickest in what respect?
Pearlfisher
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Whilst waiting in a queue to get my Malvern water from the West Malvern Haslad Spring , I began talking to the man in front of me about homebrew , he said the best beer he had ever tasted was from a 5 gallon batch of Stout to which just one tablespoon of chocolate powder had been added.
He also told me of a hops warehouse in Worcester where you used to be able to buy a load of hops from broken bales for £1 ,don't know how long he's going back though , I told him I'd just paid nearly a fiver for 100g.
He also told me of a hops warehouse in Worcester where you used to be able to buy a load of hops from broken bales for £1 ,don't know how long he's going back though , I told him I'd just paid nearly a fiver for 100g.
EskiBrew,
Well I have some chocolate grains to use and I would like them in my coopers stout to give off a chocolate taste!..
Basically due to children I really don't have much time and I just wanted to know if there was an easy way to get a hint of chocolate from the grains into my beer.
I can spare up to half an hour but I haven't got 1/2 hours spare per evening!!!
Well I have some chocolate grains to use and I would like them in my coopers stout to give off a chocolate taste!..
Basically due to children I really don't have much time and I just wanted to know if there was an easy way to get a hint of chocolate from the grains into my beer.
I can spare up to half an hour but I haven't got 1/2 hours spare per evening!!!
graysalchemy
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Are you meaning Chocolate Malt? If so the name chocolate refers to the colour and not thetaste thought it does impart a slightly burnt taste. I always use it in stout. :thumb: :thumb:
alanywiseman.
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I steeped 200g of chocolate malt in hot water (about 68C I think) for 30 minutes. Remove grains and add to FV. As GA said it does not add a chocolate taste to the beer but a fresh coffee/burnt taste. Definetly recommended for improving the kit.
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