Coopers Irish Stout

fishplate · Post by **fishplate** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:35 pm

Never done a Stout before but got one on order.Just after some tips on what to add

GSMunn · Post by **GSMunn** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:34 pm

If you can get it, a kilo of extra dark spraymalt, be prepared for uber spew though!

fishplate · Post by **fishplate** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:37 pm

What the hall is uber spew.lol

GSMunn · Post by **GSMunn** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:43 pm

You will see

Basically, it foams out of the lid and can blow lids off, its pretty active

fishplate · Post by **fishplate** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:46 pm

Ok thanks for that.Proberly saved me a beating off the wife for making a mess.

GSMunn · Post by **GSMunn** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:47 pm

Put it in a black bin bag so it can catch all the spew and wont leak

BazC · Post by **BazC** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:27 pm

Have a read of the Ditch's Stout thread, lots of info there! viewtopic.php?f=4&t=31569

poo hed · Post by **poo hed** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:34 pm

or you can make it to 16l (or something) then top up with water after the initial boom has calmed down ... apparently

i'm going to make mine to 21l with 830g light (

) dme and 420g sugar (4.6%), i ran out of money for ingredients (

)

on the coopers "brewers guild" it advises 500g light dme and 300g dextrose strangely

, it would only come out 3.7% even after the silly amount of priming advised in the instructions ! (if you use 1kg of dme it's 4% after priming

)

what a joke!

Geezah · Post by **Geezah** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:31 pm

fishplate wrote:What the hall is uber spew.lol

1 of these...

Ditch · Post by **Ditch** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:21 pm

Naah, mate. That's not a spew! This is a spew ....!

And This ......

Yeah! Suck it, bitch! Here is comes, baby ....!

Now, That's Ãœber Spew!!!

Post by **Monkeybrew** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:25 pm

Lol, don't put him off

Ditch · Post by **Ditch** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:33 pm

alethos · Post by **alethos** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:15 pm

I didn't have a problem with EDME irish stout, but I have just bought a coopers and extra dark spray malt so thanks for the warning. One hell of a spew! I'm looking forward to it.

fishplate · Post by **fishplate** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:19 pm

Ditch This might be a dumb question but what are the cable hanging out of the FV's

Ditch · Post by **Ditch** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:47 pm

fishplate wrote:Ditch; what are the cable hanging out of the FV's

German built fish tank heaters, mate. Without them, in my room? I barely get any activity.

See, I now own four heaters and Five FV's. The one without a heater is a pitiful thing. It just sits there, looking sickly. Others, with the heaters in? They erupt like mental mole hills and I can be amongst them inside a week.

People ask; Is a fish tank heater really necessary? Pffftt! I'm just bored with repeating myself .....

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