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Update on the koko brown beer. I cut the coconut extract back to 1.5 (1 1/2 bottles of extract) using 2 bottles the coconut extract came across as tasting like suntan lotion to some people, but 1.5 oz was the sweet spot. 1oz wasn't good enough either. But I'm hopefully brewing some up tomorrow...

I bottled my first nut brown coconut ale.... F'N delicious. I used a nutbrown kit from Ice Harbor and made about 5.5 gallons of the stuff, then added two 2oz bottles of coconut extract(didn't have any toasted flakes available) right before bottling. It came out to a case of 22's, a case of 12's...

What about using brown sugar instead of dextrose? For an applie pie kinda flavor?

With cold crashing it, would a ice chest full of ice water work for the cold crash? Just leave it in there for a while I'm guessing 20-30min or so. But won't this just slow the yeast down, not kill it like heating it would? I would rather cold crash cuz we just got a new fridge for the garage...

I got my first batch of nut brown brewing in the carboy. Wasn't too rough of a start, but definitely see where I need more attention and care... But I'm really excited to try it! Hopefully it turns out well... I also bottled some cider same day, so i hope that also doesn't taste like liquid poo...

Pretty sure that sounds like a new favorite of mine...

I did read it from the begining to end, musta missed that part. But i do understand the jist of it. Ive watched a lot of videos of people doing diferent brews... even stumbled on a video called "mr beer goes horribly wrong part 1" ...its a little slow start, but if ya hang in there till about...

Lol...its probably a good thing my brother is Ganna help me on my first try... But he's a serious brewer, so I'm sure he'll know what to do and not. Is there a big difference between extract malt and mashed malt? Like flavor wise, or any other way besides being just concentrated?

Awesome thread! I LOVE koko brown, but hate its a spring-winter seasonal beer :'( this is ganna be my first brew, but ill have some help from my brother who's done this a bunch... I like to coconut flavor a lot and less bitterness, so I might adjust the recipe a tiny bit, or maybe just add...

So the main difference between extract and AG is the boiling of extra grains instead of using malt extract? That seems like a really small difference.... Because you can use your boiler for a tun beforehand to get the wort prepped instead of pouring extract in right? My brother told me to look...