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Robsparky99

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I'm being pressured at work to make a stout and I must keep my guinea pigs happy while I conquer the brewing world mwhahahaha ... ha. .... meh.

Anyway, thinking of grabbing a Simply Export stout kit (1.8kg for £12.50)and combing it with:

1 x 1kg brew enhance (still have loads of them left after my cheap bulk buy)
about 300g of black treacle
about 50g of molasses I use on certain cereal as I've a sweet tooth!
200g of posh chocolate spread (contains condensed milk, glucose syrup, sugar, hazelnut praline, pectin) - it tastes rubbish on toast, so need to get rid.
some squirts of golden syrup (maybe 100g)

What do you all think?
 
Hi!
As @Oneflewover wrote, ditch the chocolate spread - file it under B1N.
You may want to add more malt - you've got a lot of "sugar" in the brew - your brew enhancer could be 50% glucose, so you've got almost 1 kilo of "sugar" from various sources.
if you want more malt, Try Holland & Barrett - Meridian malt extract.
 
Coopers stouts are one the best kits you can buy. I can recommend them. Kit reviews here along with many variations on what people do.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/coopers-irish-stout-review.17818/
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/coopers-original-stout-review.17817/
I think the Irish shades it.
My recipe is kit can and yeast, 500g dark DME, 500g golden syrup, 120g dark muscavado sugar and 4 shots of strong Italian roast coffee. Brewed to 19 litres.
If you dump lots of black treacle and/or molasses in there you could overwhelm the overall taste. You may like that.
And if you don't like the chocolate spread chuck it in the bin, its probably full of fat and perhaps preservatives which won't go well in your beer. Better, as @Alside101 has suggested, use some dark grain like chocolate malt as a steep. 200g should be about right, and will cost you under 50p.
 
Have you used that amount of treacle and molasses in a stout before? The amount of black treacle with the molasses might make it very sweet tasting. I made 20l of stout with a whole tin of black treacle (454g) and it took a long time for the treacle to stop overpowering everything - and I like treacle toffee. You're going to be using about 75% of the amount that I did so it should take less than the year mine took before it became drinkable :smile6:
 

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