Number 2: The Black Death
(Named due to its colour, and not due to taste or alcohol percentage.)
1 can Coopers Stout
1 can Maltshovel Oatmeal Stout
both kit yeats
Brewing Notes:
Mull brewed this for me while I was in Ecuador, so i really don't know what he did. Can't have been too technical though. It did ferment for about two weeks though, filling the house of two blokes who don't like stout too much with the lovely odor of said brilliant style of beer.
Tasting Notes:
1 month: Not bad really, a tad mild compared to the likes of Cooppers Best Extra, but nice, inoffensive, brilliant as a winter quaffer i reckon. It is so black, and has a good head too. Bloody filling though, especially with Dominos Pizza. Would do it again, but only if the kits were on special again. Feels like it is be about 6-7% alc/vol.
8/5/07 I really don't know what happened to all this, I can't recall drinking it, I just know that I did. Can't have been too bad, but at least we know it was around 6% for sure now. I think there are two left, one for me, one for Mull. I'll take notes this time.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
1. Milo to VB in three easy steps.
1 can Coopers Real Ale
1 kg Dextrose
200g Corn Syrup
800g Light Malt Extract
Brewing Notes:
Straightford really. Boiled water, mixed in ingredients.
I believe I boiled the kit too, i wont do that anymore, due
to advice from the Homebrew and Beer Forum.
Tasting Notes:
2 weeks: horribly sweet and evil. Way too green.
1 month: Apparently still very sweet, though I wasnt there
to taste it. I gave 24 stubbies of it to a mate for his birthday,
and then went to Ecuador for six months.
6 months: No sweetness, only bitterness. Not great at all,
over the hill for sure. Wish i was in Australia to taste it at
three months, it may have been alright. It sits about 7% alc/vol.
7 months: I take back what I said above, this beer was brilliant
really cold, absolutely brilliant, and still good a tad warmer, ie.
when almost finished and it's been sitting in the heat for a bit.
I shall miss this beer. But 7 months is a long time to wait.
1 kg Dextrose
200g Corn Syrup
800g Light Malt Extract
Brewing Notes:
Straightford really. Boiled water, mixed in ingredients.
I believe I boiled the kit too, i wont do that anymore, due
to advice from the Homebrew and Beer Forum.
Tasting Notes:
2 weeks: horribly sweet and evil. Way too green.
1 month: Apparently still very sweet, though I wasnt there
to taste it. I gave 24 stubbies of it to a mate for his birthday,
and then went to Ecuador for six months.
6 months: No sweetness, only bitterness. Not great at all,
over the hill for sure. Wish i was in Australia to taste it at
three months, it may have been alright. It sits about 7% alc/vol.
7 months: I take back what I said above, this beer was brilliant
really cold, absolutely brilliant, and still good a tad warmer, ie.
when almost finished and it's been sitting in the heat for a bit.
I shall miss this beer. But 7 months is a long time to wait.
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