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Chocolate Stout

Published on April 26, 2009 in beer. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I wanted to post earlier but haven’t gotten to it. I bottled my Chocolate Stout on April 15th. It still had a FG of 1.020.

Update on the stout. I tried one about 3 days ago in a test bottle. Still pretty flat but a really nice burnt coffee taste with a lot of chocolate taste. It was the amount of chocolate that I expected, but I’m sure it would be too much for connoisseurs of chocolate stouts.

Update on my Tripel. I took a hydrometer reading and it was at 1.017. That is down from an OG of 1.089. If it is the same in a couple days I will rack to secondary. I took a taste and it was about 5 oz of heaven. I am really excited to try it. It was strong (about 9.6%abv) and you could taste it AND feel it :) Maybe I’m a lightweight but I’ll have to be careful with this one.

Chocolate “Stimulus Stout”

Published on March 29, 2009 in beer. 0 Comments Tags: , .

I pulled the trigger on a good priced stout extract kit (the “Depot’s Stimulus Stout”) at the Homebrewing Depot. I’m going to use it as a base to my first stout and furthermore my first chocolate stout. I made the decision to go chocolate after Kel and I tried a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. It was good but not as chocolate tasting as I anticipated. I was assuming chocolate beer with a name like that. I did some research in addition to finishing Charlie Papazian’s The Complete Joy of Home Brewing. I decided to add 100% cocoa powder, vanilla extract and lactose to my stout base recipe. My OG was 1.052.