Steeped 150 grams of chocolate malt for
30mins and added to the barrel with 1
can of coopers stout and 1kg of copper
nut brew enhancer. Filled barrel up to
19L. OG reading was 1032 but this was
because I hadnt mixed the can in enough,
24hrs into fermentation realised it
wasnt mixed properly and gave it a stir.
Brewed at 24C for 8 days. Bottling SG
was 1011, at bottling tasted great,
surprisingly similar to Guinness and
chocolate flavour came through
brilliantly. Afetr a week in the bottle
its good but I wish I had left it flat
to be honest.
After two weeks in the bottle its
tasting great, very similar to Leffe
Blonde (not my thoughts but two very
critical mates), or 3/4 towards
Hoegaarden when standing between Hoe and
Macs Great White. Couldnt recomend more,
the price in bottle is twice that of the
regular effort but when your looking at
$0.70 per stubbie vs $3.50 the pay back
is less than a crate of home brew away.
Brewed with 1.5kg brown sugar and
bottled using rough tablespoon of brown
sugar to prime. after 6 weeks in the
bottle it is starnge. Good, addicting,
but strange all the same. Its like the
pretty red head girl in the corner of a
party, you know there is something wrong
with her but you just have to have her.
After each sip there is a sweet caramel
flavour left on the lips which is
other-worldly. Would reccomend giving it
a go with all this brown sugar. Rather
potent too, 3 crate bottles and you the
king of the bar.
I started with the Muntons kit however
swapped the yeast for a specialist wheat
yeast (can't remember the brand).
brewed
as per directions however used a
brewcraft wheat beer enhancer in place
of dextrose/ sugar. I put the wheat
enhancer in the barrel after the boiling
water and brew kit resulting in some of
the wheat to turn into porridge, this
didn't end up negatively affecting the
brew. OG 1040, FG 1006 after 13 days
with temp varying from 22-17 degrees
celcius. Just bottled it with standard
two carbonation drops per crate bottle.
Tasted surprisingly great straight from
the barrel, will give an update in a
couple weeks when I open up the first
bottle or two.