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Hello fellow members
I'am getting creative/loosing it ?
I want to brew a high abv stout with lots off chocolate and coffee flavours
I'am a kit Brewer that's tacking the next step
Thinking off steeping chocolate malt 👍,coffee ???? Advice please what's got coffee flavour ??
And would like 10 % Abv
I was thinking a cooper stout as the base to add to
Would I use a wine yeast ??
Before I get negative comments, I can't help it it's got to be tried
Help from anyone that's better than me, that means everyone :grin::whistle::D
 
I used (possibly too much) coffee malt in my recent first AG.
A mash with some pale malt as well as your speciality malts may help bump up your sg or sugar if you don't mind thinning your final product.
I know some others have tried port or bourbon when bottling to add those flavours and boost the final abv.
Good luck.
 
Your basically after a kit version of a Russian Imperial Stout (RIS). Here's a reciepe from the coopers site

http://store.coopers.com.au/recipes/index/view/id/49/

This reciepe is for 9.2% but you could add some molasses or DME or more sugar to bump it further

If you want to add a strong coffee flavour, strangely enough you could add coffee;) Use a french press and add it at bottling time I think.

You need about 1 year conditioning too btw
 
Love brewing do a Russian imperial stout kit @ 7.7% that uses a dry base malt and hops as part of the kit (not a cheap kit though, but has good reviews). You could try using that as a base and then tweak to increase the SG perhaps?

Let us know how you get on.
 
I made one a couple of years ago using a Coopers kit as base and added some dark muscovado sugar and black treacle on top of the dark spray malt, brewed it a little short and got a specialist yeast for higher alcohol... think it was Safbrew T-58 which tolerates higher alcohol levels. I let it bottle condition for about 18 months before trying it... I'd say it was moderately successful...
 

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