AARGH! I broke my coopers stout

[shandypants5]

Before Xmas I brewed a coopers stout just to see what all the fuss was about.
It turned out to be a superb pint and the top third of the corny got drunk pretty fast.

It all goes downhill from this point.

just before new year I decided that I would like to transfer some of it to 2l pet bottles to take to other peoples houses and show it off a bit.

This was my plan.
lower the temp and up the gass pressure.
next day lower the pressure and dispense into cold bottles, so that it wouldnt be comletely flat when the bottle was opened.

This is how it went.

I put the corny in the old fridge in my garage. I had a few pints of something else and I went to bed.
I woke up next day and I was discovered I had the flu, I was really ill and this lasted about 10 days.

Once I got better I my mind turned to ale again and I remembered my stout.
I opened the fridge door to find everything had a frost on it and the corny didnt make any sloshing noises when I shook it. it seems it IS possible to freeze stout solid.

Oh bugger I thought, I shall just have to let it thaw out.
its cold in my garage and 2 weeks later and shaking the corny still sounds like its frozen(no slosh) so friday night I decide to "force" the issue a little and put a heater belt around it for half hour.

Anyway. that coopers European lager with extra sugar and spraymalt is good stuff an I fell asleep, so SWMBO sent me to bed.

Next morning I found a nice hand warm corny simmering away in the garage.
Oh dear, I thought to myself, and turned off the power and left it for another week.

SO... last night I thought I would give it a try and see how it tastes.(now remember I upped the gass pressure several weeks ago)
I ended up with a pint of foam, once this settled to about 2 inches of stout I toop a sip.....

IT TASTS BLOODY AWFULL !!!!

My question is...
Where do you think I went wrong?

[WishboneBrewery]

maybe there's some dirt in your tap?!
Sounds like your re-invented the Domino Effect!

Quote from Wikipedia:
The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby in Coopers Stout, which then will cause another similar change in Coopers Stout, and so on in linear sequence in Coopers Stout. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes, like Coopers Stout. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small. It can be used literally (an observed series of actual collisions) or metaphorically (complex systems such as global finance, Cornelius Dispensing equipment, or in politics, where linkage is only a hypothesis in Coopers stout).

:p

[shandypants5]

maybe there's some dirt in your tap?!
Sounds like your re-invented the Domino Effect!

Quote from Wikipedia:
The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby in Coopers Stout, which then will cause another similar change in Coopers Stout, and so on in linear sequence in Coopers Stout. The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes, like Coopers Stout. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively small. It can be used literally (an observed series of actual collisions) or metaphorically (complex systems such as global finance, Cornelius Dispensing equipment, or in politics, where linkage is only a hypothesis in Coopers stout).

:p

Ahh thats it then.

not MY fault at all then.

Anyone got any good uses for 20 pints of sour stout...?

Would it work as a wood preserver?

[WishboneBrewery]

maybe a Beef Stew and Dumplings with lots of Stout?! Or is it that bad you wouldn't put it near edible food?

[shandypants5]

Hey good idea. cooking stout !

I have chilled it, over pressurized it, frozen it, warmed it.... I may as well boil it now it cant get any worse.

I will trawl the interweb for recipies.
somehow or other this stout is getting consumed.

[Ditch]

I have chilled it, over pressurized it, frozen it, warmed it.
somehow or other this stout is getting consumed.

Please don't!