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Well, I just finished brewing it up. I decided to forget about the chocolate in the boil. Maybe I'll add some small amount of cocoa to the secondary with the raspberry extract. Thanks for the opinions, guys.

I actually haven't yet had any beers with actual chocolate in it, but the chocolate raspberry combo sounds too goo to resist.

Anyone try adding chocolate to this kit? I've been searching through posts and it seems like a couple guys tried it, but they never posted any of their results. I have ordered the kit and I'm wondering if I should go the normal route and follow the instructions or try something cool.

I’ve only done one brew before but now that supplies are dwindling, batch 2 is on my mind. I want to do a relatively light sweet porter. Chocolate/Coffee/Vanilla flavors would be welcome. Any advice on resources for formulating a grain bill? Hops/yeast recommendations? A recipe that you like...

Drinking another one tonight. Seems that another week in the bottles did it some good. Damn, this feels awesome to drink beer that I made. Thanks for the input.

Sorry I haven't gotten back in a couple days and thanks to all that have responded! Here's some answers to help clarify the situation. I did boil the priming sugar in water before adding it to the bottling bucket. I added one vial of White Labs California Ale yeast, supplied with the kit that...

Well, I have had an amber ale in bottles for about 4 weeks. I did make sure to add the priming sugar to the beer (bottling bucket) immediately before bottling. I pretty much just added it directly to the bottling bucket and the it went right into bottles. I capped it with a hand capper and...

I just graduated from TCNJ, myself and I live in Ewing. Welcome to the site!

I just realized that I took the reading completely wrong. My OG was actually about 1.370 since I took the reading of just the concentrated wort!:tank: I suppose it would have helped to take the reading once the fresh water was added to the partial boil:cross:

Gee, I have no idea why I didn't think of that :tank: Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Looks like pouring meausred amounts is my best bet.

Has anyone made markings on their 6.5 gallon carboy to mark approximate volume measurement? This would make it a lot easier to make sure you're topping off partial boils with the right amount of fresh water. If anyone has, can you please share your method for calculating the right spot on the...

I did the Austin Homebrew Shiop's recipe for the Fat Tire clone. I tried the mini-mash option that they offer which gives you about half of your grain bill in mashed grain and the other half in extract. There were I think 2lbs of Pale LME and 3 lbs of Extra Pale LME to go along with the mashed...

I just did my first brew this weekend (a Fat Tire clone). Everything went beautifully until the end when I took my specific gravity and I got a corrected reading of 1.041. The kit said that I should get a reading of 1.050. Is this too far off from the suggested reading? Fermentation took a...

Equipment arrived today along with Fat Tire mini-mash. This looks like it's going to be a lot of fun:ban:

Well I called AHS and the guy I talked to strongly reccomended not trying the I2PA as my first brew. I went with their Fat Tire clone instead.