my Coopers Dark ale is maturing quite nicley but the aftertaste of Treacle is a bit on the strong side but I do like a hint of treacle in my ale.
How do you think it would work if I did another coopers dark kit and used a Cheap Geordie Bitter kit instead of Sugar and bumped the OG up a bit with beer enhancer to say 1.050 ish to compensate for the unfermentables in the Geordie kit.
And what could I expect it to finish at?
Are there enough fermentables in a geordie kit to contemplate this and would it smooth out the treacle flavour?
Sugestions and / or advice please
using a second kit as fermentables
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macleanb
I think your main issue will be that both kits are hopped to be diluted to 5 gals each, if you only make 5 gals all told, then its likely to be over hopped 
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Also you may find that thebalance of unfermatables (dextrins etc) make the beer more syrupy/sweet that you like - but I think this is less likely to be an issue.
Where is your treacle falvour coming from - the kit?
If you were trying to "compensate" thaen fully fermentables would be the choice (dextrose/sugar). But as yeast (from what I have seen here) generally works on a percentage attenuation (within its range) I dont think this is going to work how you think.
Where would it finish FG wise - gawd knows....
If you discover a magic cure for treacle flavour let me know - I have 25 pints of coopers real ale primed with black treacle that I drink only when I run out of other beer (which isnt often).
.Also you may find that thebalance of unfermatables (dextrins etc) make the beer more syrupy/sweet that you like - but I think this is less likely to be an issue.
Where is your treacle falvour coming from - the kit?
If you were trying to "compensate" thaen fully fermentables would be the choice (dextrose/sugar). But as yeast (from what I have seen here) generally works on a percentage attenuation (within its range) I dont think this is going to work how you think.
Where would it finish FG wise - gawd knows....
If you discover a magic cure for treacle flavour let me know - I have 25 pints of coopers real ale primed with black treacle that I drink only when I run out of other beer (which isnt often).
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Frisp
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opentoideas
if you want to ease the treacle flavor then you could try using the 2 kits but make it up to 10gal (with additional fermentables) this would effectively halve the coopers dark in the brew.Frisp wrote:Thanks I will just have to try a few different kits or recipes to find a flavour I really like.
Jim
it might be better to use another coopers kit though (real ale/bitter)
i have not brewed with these so its just a sugestion
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daveyk
Just for the record, I'm no expert but that sounds like a great idea! i suppose you would get an 'average flavour'.opentoideas wrote: if you want to ease the treacle flavor then you could try using the 2 kits but make it up to 10gal (with additional fermentables) this would effectively halve the coopers dark in the brew.
Other than that, I woudl suggest priming with treacle as per macleanb's idea... but again I've not tried that either.
Dave