There was enough left over in my bottling bucket to to fill a pint glass two thirds of the way up. I did not bother trying to bottle this as it was the leftovers. Instead I took a few mouthfuls and it tastes lovely. It is more a foreign extra or possibly an Imperial stout as it is sweeter than a standard Dry Irish stout. There is a lot of chocolate in this. There were some bits floating around in my sample but if there is any in the rest of the bottles then conditioning should force most of it to the bottom. It does not detract from the taste though.
Final gravity was 1.024, though it may be more like 1.023 but I will settle on 1.024. Since the original was 1.074 giving it an ABV of 6.6% which is a little lower than I was going for but close enough.
Should be an interesting sweet chocolate stout.
On a slightly different note, I have one bottle of drinkable homebrew left and then that is all the beer I have. I do have 2 bottles of each of my last three which I will be bringing to the ICB meet-up tomorrow night.
Once all the beer is gone, I will have none until the stout is ready. I will see if I can lose a little weight and drink Whiskey instead.

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