Hello all.
I recently aquired an EDME Extra Stout kit at a very good price. I wasn't looking to make a stout next, but it seems the opportunity just presented itself. I am curious about seeing if I can turn this kit into a Double Chocolate Stout. I was just thinking of adding some cocoa powder at different times during the boil or possibly in the secondary. Not sure how much to add, though. Maybe even adding some different hops, too. The kit also says extra malt is needed and I have 3lbs of DME @ home, but I'm not sure if that would make it too dark. A friend told me a Chocolate Stout kit he recently purchased from AHS came with a packet of chocolate powder to add at the time of bottling. Do you think this would be a different type of chocolate (ie. not Hershey's cocoa powder)?
If the concensus here is not to mess with the kit, then I'll probably turn it into an Armistice Ale...recipe found here: http://www.thehomebrewstore.com/FoamyExpress0511.htm
Some of the Chocolate Stout recipes I've found and thought about making a hybrid with this kit are found here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=14656
http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/Chocolate-Stout-631.html
Thoughts?
I recently aquired an EDME Extra Stout kit at a very good price. I wasn't looking to make a stout next, but it seems the opportunity just presented itself. I am curious about seeing if I can turn this kit into a Double Chocolate Stout. I was just thinking of adding some cocoa powder at different times during the boil or possibly in the secondary. Not sure how much to add, though. Maybe even adding some different hops, too. The kit also says extra malt is needed and I have 3lbs of DME @ home, but I'm not sure if that would make it too dark. A friend told me a Chocolate Stout kit he recently purchased from AHS came with a packet of chocolate powder to add at the time of bottling. Do you think this would be a different type of chocolate (ie. not Hershey's cocoa powder)?
If the concensus here is not to mess with the kit, then I'll probably turn it into an Armistice Ale...recipe found here: http://www.thehomebrewstore.com/FoamyExpress0511.htm
Some of the Chocolate Stout recipes I've found and thought about making a hybrid with this kit are found here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=14656
http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/Chocolate-Stout-631.html
Thoughts?