coopers stout

[alawlor66430]

thats the stout all underway now, 500g of dermarera, 500g of dark spray malt and 350g of tayte and lyle im getting 1.044/6 on the first reading so im hoping for good things here cant wait till this ones ready :party:

 

[RobWalker]

just drinking one myself! delicious tipple. good luck dude. :)

 

[alawlor66430]

it looks really braw before its even ready lol

 

[alawlor66430]

how long did you age yours for

 

[RobWalker]

I didn't :lol: amazingly this tasted brilliant straight after fermentation, so I've just been drinking it since. It will probably get better in time, but if it tastes good, drink it!

 

[alawlor66430]

aw lol quality im drinking some heavy that i bottled a week ago and its nice but getting nicer the longer i leave it so im hoping itll be great in a few weeks

 

[JordanB]

Keep us posted how it goes :-) got one of these from tesco for 7 quid so gonna it on in the near future and make it nice and chocolatey I think.

 

[JordanB]

Regarding conditioning a stout I would say around 2 - 3 months maybe more.

 

[oldstout]

My Coopers Irish is almost three months now - it's quite nice :thumb:

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[Rwilts]

Well having enjoyed a few glasses of my coopers Irish stout tonight I will say its good to drink two weeks in the corny.

I have bottled 20 though for putting aside for a few months time.

 

[alawlor66430]

I'm 8 pints into my heavy right now tonight and I'm amazed these words are in the right order and better than that it tastes great, I don't know if any of you have tried mc'ewans special but if you have it's exactly like youngs Scottish heavy great pint and that's that, hope the stouts even better :drink:

 

[alawlor66430]

I thought about some treacle for the next stout but not sure if that would be nice I done the current one with 500 g spray malt (dark) and 500g dermarera and 350g tayte and lyle so I think that'll cOme out nice a wee bit stronger but still nice, the chocolate thing interests me so maybe in a while I'll try that

 

[RobWalker]

It'll add a liquorice flavour if you use treacle. Chocolate can be added with chocolate malt, cocoa or cacao nibs.

 

[alawlor66430]

I don't think I'll bother with the treacle then lol

 

[Rwilts]

Well I stuck a whole tin in from the beginning and although you can certainly taste it it's lovely. I have a coopers stout standing by and will be doing it exactly the same :

 

[calumscott]

And I primed one with treacle and its magic, wished I'd used more in the brew...

...will do next time! Or maybe a bit of muscovado...

 

[Rwilts]

Or both , as i did! :thumb:

 

[alawlor66430]

aw so it didnt ruin it, is it a strong liqurice taste ??

 

[Rwilts]

No definitely not. it tastes like a nice quality stout. I think you will be very happy :thumb:

Guns a childs toy by the way! :whistle:

 

[alawlor66430]

yeah i hope so, i cant wait to start experimenting with all different flavours it all quite exciting