St Peters Cream Stout kit additions
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Roger Wilko
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I looking at the cream stout kit and was going to add 500g of dark dme. Do I need to add extra yeast when adding extras?
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I added three 6g packs of yeast for all the fermentables I added to the two can kit (2.2kg extra), totalling 5.2kg. I added 500g lactose, but that doesn't ferment.
Maybe another packet to your kit may do?
Unlike Clint's warning, the krauzen only rose 3 to 4 inches and settled to an inch after two days. I'm leaving it at least a fortnight to clean up.
Would appreciate any thoughts. aunsure....
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We'll, two weeks in and the gravity is 1015. That's 10.5%! A nice winter sipper. Tasted a bit before adding flavours and it's got strong molasses with a nice bitterness. I added my cold brew coffee and cocoa. Then 4 vanilla pods that have soaked in vodka for months including a big glug of the essence, followed by a gentle stir. Leaving it for another fortnight before bottling.
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Happy New Year All!
I opened a few bottles over the Xmas period and really enjoyed them. The flavours had blended better and was smoother than the first sampling three months earlier. The single carb drop bottles are much as per the photo posted previously, but the two drop ones have a small, thin head.
Not as much vanilla or chocolate flavour compared to a Drygate Orinoco Stout, but hints of chocolate and coffee on the aftertaste. Not too bitter either, with a nice treacly edge.
I'm very pleased overall for my first time pimping a kit!
I opened a few bottles over the Xmas period and really enjoyed them. The flavours had blended better and was smoother than the first sampling three months earlier. The single carb drop bottles are much as per the photo posted previously, but the two drop ones have a small, thin head.
Not as much vanilla or chocolate flavour compared to a Drygate Orinoco Stout, but hints of chocolate and coffee on the aftertaste. Not too bitter either, with a nice treacly edge.
I'm very pleased overall for my first time pimping a kit!
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Out of interest, did you put the vanilla pods in vodka to 'sanitise' them? Presumably, if you bought pods from a supermarket, you couldn't just throw them into the brew.
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I've always chucked them in. Found that two is more than enough for a batch.
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I already had them in vodka for baking! Depends when you want add them. As I left them until after fermentation, then was happy that the vodka had sanitised them, otherwise I'd have sanitised just before adding. Conversely you could add them when pouring your boiling water. Don't know how that'd taste though
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Well that's it about 14 months old now. Sipping just now I note that it's far nicer than earlier in the year. The muscovado has smoothed out to a more subtle brown sugar taste (less treacle), the vanilla is just there in the background and the chocolate is there on the nose and aftertaste. The alcohol is there on the nose and taste, but it's far more balanced overall. Christ it's strong though!
