stout

Hi all. Hope this is in the right discussion. I'm a big fan of the Vocation Double Tonka Frappe, cans in some supermarkets. It's an 8% Stout. It's bordering on sweet - lactose or vanilla too? plus a good punch of coffee and tonka. Has anyone had a go at a clone for this?

Whenever I see a kit that demands adding sugar or one of their proprietary "beer kit enhancers" (which costs almost the same as the kit itself), the first thing I think is: No. Let's brew this short and add some dried malt extract if we need to bring up the ABV. Adding sugar is the primary...

Hi there, I have a Cooper's Irish Stout kit on the go at the moment which I have pimped up a bit with a tiny bit of coffee and some cacao nibs. I'm intrigued by the idea of adding some peppermint tea to it and having something that will taste a bit like After Eights in stout form to drink over...

Started my second brew tonight. A wilkos velvet stout kit which I’m hoping to have ready for Christmas. Sanitised everything and decided to try bottled water this time. Pitched a little hotter than I’d like but took more care than the instructions suggested. 1 tin Wilkos velvet stout 1kg...

Hello everyone, New to the Forum, been brewing for about 5 years, but recently made the step up to All Grain and have 7 really solid AG Batches under my belt. AG has made me fall in love with brewing all over again! Anyway, I'll cut to chase, I'm wanting to make a sweet, high ABV (between...

Hi, I recently brewed a BIAB batch of what I hoped would be an imperial stout with an initial OG of 1.084 and an expected FG of 1.017 on a 14 litre batch pitched with US-05. After 4 days I checked the fermenation which gave a gravity reading of 1.040. I then checked a further 6 days later and...

Hi, I'm planning on brewing a small batch of Milk Stout this weekend (around 10 litres) to test out my recipe before I scale it up. I'm using Safale 04 British Ale yeast, usually I would make a starter with the whole pack and add it to a 20L batch. Am I best using half of the yeast this time...

Hi, Im new to brewing so I was wondering if anyone has any tips for me so I don't completely mess up my first brew.

Just by chance I have a coffee stout that's ready to keg and one of my kegs has just ran out that had a coffee porter in. Now this might cause an argument with the sanitation police but is there any real harm in kegging my stout straight into this keg without cleaning the keg with oxi and then...

Evening! Got a brew day coming up, version 2 of a Chocolate Milkshake Stout I’m working on. Already decided on a few tweaks to improve but wanted to see if anyone has any experience of steeping darker malts in water before using? Read a few bits about it removing harshness etc but would be...

So, on Sunday I finally cracked a bottle of my first all grain, own recipe beer (a Chocolate Milkshake Stout, at least that’s what I’m calling it)…and was bloody pleased! Before that I had done one Brooklyn Brew Shop kit, which came out average at best, so on Sunday’s tasting I have to admit I...

Jolly Todger Tropical Stout This beer is just what you need on a hot summers day or with a hot curry. Also guaranteed to remedy brewers droop and keeps your todger at peek performance for longer. Must be served cold. The recipe is based on 19th century export stouts, which were commonly...

Brewing my first stout soon, what do you guys think of this recipe? Batch Size: 5 liters (fermentor volume) Original Gravity: 1.062 Final Gravity: 1.014 ABV (standard): 6.33% IBU (tinseth): 38.33 SRM (morey): 35.72 Mash pH: 0 FERMENTABLES: 1.25 kg - Maris Otter Pale (80.6%) 0.1 kg - Crystal...

Evening All, I'm brewing a St Peters cream stout kit next week and hope to turn it into a clone of Stealth breweries Mint Spy (Sweet mint stout), I'm no stranger to sweet stouts and I think they're great. I've currently got a tincture of vanilla absolute and soaking 3g of shredded mint leaves...

Evening all, I’m going to be brewing a clone of Mint spy (sweet mint stout) and was curious as to whether I could condition in a corny keg? Ideally i’d like to leave it 6 months and serve around Christmas time, my thinking behind this would be to charge the keg with a Co2 bulb and purge a few...

Evening All, I'm looking at buying and brewing up the above mentioned kit, I've conditioned stouts before in bottles etc and it's got me thinking... Could you condition in a corny keg? So once fermented and transferred i'd charge the keg with a single Co2 bulb and re-charge say every two weeks...

Hi, Going to brew a Coopers Irish Stout soon and considering adding Turkish Coffee or chillies. I've some very good Turkish coffee and was wondering if I could use it 1:1 as a replacement for the 3 or 4 espressos? Would I need to filter the 'bits', could they 'go off' if added to the...

There’s a few spots on my vanilla choc stout krausen that look quite odd, as a newbie this doesn’t look right to me but to some of you chaps might say it’s normal. The Double choc one on the other hand is going along nicely!

Happy Thursday all! Now a few evenings a go i ordered 3 packets of Crossmyloof us-Pale Ale Yeast, it was my error due to amazons one click purchasing i ordered this instead of the real ale yeast. I plan to use a stout beer kit tomorrow and was curious as to if i make a starter would the yeast i...

Good Evening all, with regards to splitting one can kits... would it be possible to warm 4 litres of water (to 'dissolve' the kit) and then split the 4 litres between two fermenters? I've just bought Chocmeister from wilkos new range and want to brew two lots of 9L it's supposed to be a 22L kit...