Chocolate Chilli Coopers Stout, any tips ?

[burgo]

Well it started like this, two drunken friends on a pub crawl, discussing my Coopers Stout HB ...

The discussion moved on to, "Chocolate goes well with Stout and Chillis go well with Chocolate so why not Chocolate Chilli Stout."

This is where you guys come in, I have not yet modded a kit but fancy giving this a punt, a winter warmer indeed, can anyone sanity check my idea.

Take one kit of Coopers Stout and make it up to 25 pints (this will give it a bit of extra punch, like an Imperial Stout) would the yeast supplied give me the desired level of alcohol or should I use some Safale04 which I have tucked away in my box of tricks.

The final pieces of the puzzle are some Hersheys Pure Dark Cocoa (rather than chocolate malt) and some home grown chillis and 1 KG extra dark spraymalt. Any idea of how much of each I should try ? I was going to chop up the Chillis to allow more flavour through and let the yeast and malt do its stuff

Does this sound workable, if not just slightly crazy ??

[chopperswookie]

slightly crazy!!

[adm]

Crazy yes....but in a strangely appealing way....


I can't help you with the Coopers version, but I think I'm going to borrow the concept shortly and do a chocolate chilli Four Shades of Stout (except now it'll be Six Shades).

I'm thinking some roasted and finely crushed cocoa beans in the mash and more in the end of the boil, plus some more coupled with chopped chillis in secondary. Quite a long secondary....

Mmmm.....

[mysterio]

I believe DaaB is the go-to man for chocolate chilli beers.

[burgo]

Ah, not such an original idea after all, however, I am glad, I was starting to wonder if I was a little crazy

[Mogwyth]

Never done chilli chocolate beer, but I have done a few chilli chocolate recipes and found that about 2 typical sized chillies to 200gms dark chocolate gives a good balance.

Cheers

Bill

[the real deal]

It sounds good. I recently tried a bottle of "chili beer'.
Although its not a stout it packs a bit of a punch. The gimic is to have a chilli in the bottle rather than a slice of lime.
So... I don't know if you would want to go down the same path as this beer, to brew your beer up and when its time to bottle it put a chilli in the bottle so its there when you crack it open to drink.
best of luck with it anyways and hope it works out.

[Trunky]

[RatboyOllie]

I bought a chilli beer from a supermarket up in the lake disctrict, its basically a bottle of lager with a chilli floatin in it, is that how they would impart the chilli flavour or is that just for novelty value? Could be easily done if you were to grow your own chilli's and throw one in each bottle?

[WishboneBrewery]

Make Chilli Chocolate with home grown chilles and make Stout with a Coopers