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That is conventional wisdom: in Adelaide at least Coopers had a billboard ad featuring a snowy landscape with two shining brass balls prominently in the foreground to promote their stout 

However, by the time you get home from work in winter it will likely already be dark and you want a dark beer?

I do like a Coopers Stout on a cold day but black is not my favorite color.

Nice to mix stouts, a stout one day and a Belgian Tripel or a Golden Strong Ale, light in color with a glorious warm malty aroma the next occasion.

I think I will buy the parcel of stouts on offer—some very nice chocolate and vanilla stouts there.


Hmmm chocolate stout, made one of those once.

So brewed a stout as normal, at the last 15 minute stage of the boil I added a slurry I had made of a packet of (Dutch, of course, best there is) cocoa and cold water then added a bit of boiling hot wort. When I turned the heat off under the wort I added a bar of good quality chocolate to ‘fix’ the chocolate flavor. A vanilla bean or two might have been a nice compliment to the chocolate flavor.

(One yank brewer who thought he was a kickass brewer also made a chocolate stout—he just dumped the cocoa into the boiling wort and spent hours cleaning his kettle. With my stout just the normal washout with cold water was all it took. LOL!)

A honey and lemon drink is my go-to for winter

Diluted apple cider vinegar is my cold & flu cure.