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just my 2 cents, on a boulevard chocolate ale clone, I added 1 oz belgian cocoa pwdr at 5min, then bottled after a month of primary. I used 5 oz corn sugar to prime and added an 1/8 oz nibs to 6 of the bottles (15 oz). Didn't try for almost a month but, both bottles, (with and w/o nibs...

cocoa pwdr in boil, or dry hop with nibs

well a month in the bottle, have to believe that it came out pretty well. Probably not much of a summer beer, oh well it'll age, on to the next project.

austin homebrew carries it

Hey marcus sorry for taking so long, My guess for making an accurate replication would be to just use the pale malt, wheat and oats, and dry hop the cocoa nibs, kiss i guess, i'll see how mine comes out and, then think about trying a simplified version. chris

after getting some more info from a source, i really don't think the recipes that have been posted are very close to the original. I'm not saying they'll be bad but not the original. Anyways i was trying for a 5 gallon recipe and mashed around 155-158, I only added the cocoa nibs to about six...

plenty of chocolate flavor, actually pretty smooth, think i may have a winner but we'll know for sure in a couple months

warm, flat, strong, let you know in a couple months

yep sure did

finished at 1.009, bottling next weekend

10 deader guy ale, 5 lite beer and 5 1.089 chocolate ale

brewed it fit in the mash tun just fine came out 1.089, fit in 5 gallons lite lager, and 10 deader guy ale, now that just barely fits in a 10 gallon tun ;)

brewed came out 1.089 not quite what i was going for but close enough did drop the vanilla and cocoa back to 5 minutes, wish me luck

one week would be tough two doable but 8 lbs 2 row 10 bucks 3/4 oz haltauer 60 2 bucks 1/4 oz 5 pitch on cake hopefully done in 2 days keg force carb good luck fermentation under pressure may speed up the process but i haven't messed with it yet so...