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Brewed this last year...The fermentation was so violent it blew the lid off the bucket. Definitley be prepared with a blow off tube.

My batch has been sitting in bottles now for 3 weeks. At 2 weeks I tried one and there was an off taste present, however, I cracked one open yesterday (at the 3 week mark) and it has cleaned up nicely. I'll probably let it sit in the bottle a week or two before cracking the remaining bottles...

Yeah I hear you. I threw 2 scraped beans cut in quarters in an empty olive oil bottle. I used 2 tiny Smirnoff Vanilla vodkas and one Smirnoff Triple distilled - hopefully the vanilla vodka doesn't offset any flavoring. So that comes to about 5 fl oz if my math is correct. How much should I...

Thanks for the reply jwible204. MacGruber, I'm a little worried my batch will be a tad harsh as well. It should finish around 1.030 which would give it a 10.5% abv. Do you think adding another 1/8 teaspoon in addition to the 1/2 teaspoon of each spice would help mask it at bottling/kegging...

I brewed a 5g batch of this over the weekend; it's my second all grain batch. I cut the recipe in half and mashed at about 154 and ended up at 1.100-1.110. Thanks for all of the suggestions regarding this recipe. Here's what I did.. -I baked a can of libby's pumpkin pie mix and mixed in a...