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Just put down my 1st stout!

1 can Coopers Dark Ale
1 Can Coopers Stout
500g LDME
500g brew enhancer 2.
22 litres filtered water

Planning on racking this one (1st time racking). Any suggestions for dry hopping etc. if needed? How long in secondary?

Regards

No suggestions, but I'm drooling over my keyboard.
Got a combo like that going as well, but with demerara sugar, 150g choc malt & 15g Fuggles.
Sitting at 18degrees wiht a lovely krausen

My advice would be to skip the BE2 and spend that money on 250g each of lactose and corn syrup.

Out of curiosity more than anything else, what was the OG?

Rabz

Rabbitz wrote:Out of curiosity more than anything else, what was the OG?

Rabz

Starting SG was 1060 at 1130 am today sitting at 24 degrees.

BE2 was left in cupboard so didn't cost anything as was the light dry malt. Has been in the fermentor for 4 hours and some activity already showing.

Have put a plastic tube into the top of the airlock and into a plastic container just in case it overflows - have read all about the MONSTER heads these toucans can achieve!

Thanks,

That makes sense. Twice as many fermenting ingredients = higher starting SG.

For some reason I couldn't work out in my mind what would happen, but the basic physics of it are quite obvious.

Now I have to work out was it caused by too many or too few beers...

Rabz

Huge krausen coming out the airlock! Never had this before so I keep going back into the laundry to witness this wondrous event.

Glad I put the plakky tube into the airlock otherwise SWMBO would have my two test tickles in a jar

BTW - SG down to 1052 this am. Boy those Coopers yeasts are quick.

Paramidget wrote:Boy those Coopers yeasts are quick.

That is not necessarily a good thing...

I also put my first stout down the other day.
A Coopers Stout with BE2.18L Brew
The can was given to me and was a couple of months past the Best Before date. I chucked the yeast and used another that I had in the fridge. The yeast was from a Coopers Pale Ale kit.
Am I right to assume that the Pale Ale kit yeast and Stout yeast are the same/similiar?

yep, they're the same. if you keep the temperature low and stable, you should be pretty pleased with that as a first stout, especially considering you kept the volume down by 5 litres from standard. that should compensate well for the lack of a decent malt addition.