Can you change the taste of kit Ales ?

[DrZiggy]

This is probably a stupid question so please don't all laugh to loud....

I'm pretty new to how brewing and not sure I'm ready to start creating my own wort as yet. So I was wondering is it possible to change the flavour of a kit brew, was thinking of something simple like adding 100g of melted chocolate to the fermentation of a Admirals reserve to give it a sutble chocolate falvour, or Mabye Syrup or treacle instead of brewing sugar to something else.

Thanks in advance for anyones advice...

[steve_flack]

You can change sugars and also dry hop kits. I'd give melted chocolate a miss though (it will unmelt and the fats in it will knacker the head on the beer). If by treacle you mean the black stuff then I'd be careful of that too - it's very strongly flavoured and is very easy to overdo.

[Ditch]

Talking of treacle; I once bought some Black Strap Mollasses for a completely unrelated purpose which I never got round to using it for. Then I ran out of suger one day and put some in my tea. I wouldn't want anything Else in my tea now!

Like treacle, as Steve says, it's hellishly potent in flavour and one would have to both be assured that the taste was aquired, then be Very carefull at the ammount used. But for a dark brew? Maybe something around a Stout or Porter? If ye struck lucky, it could produce a hell of a taste. I can see absolutely fiendish potential for a 'Winter Ale' with it.

Definately one to sample as an addative though. Try to replace the 'suger' quota with it, eg. and I'm quite sure ye'd be pouring five gallons down the sink.

[CyberPaddy66]

I'm going to modify a Geordie Mild kit by fermenting it with Beer Kit Enhancer and then priming with a jar of honey as a starting mod, after that I'll do the Dry hopping mod and see if I like that

Play with it and post your results

[pantsmachine]

I put 2 tablespoons of liquid honey into a 10ltr american pale ale kit and you could taste the honey but not very strongly, nice but next time i did it i would put in 1 tablespoon for 10 litres to see if the honey was masking other flavours.