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It's quite hard to get a photo with the lid on! :) I was taking my final gravity reading in preparation for bottling soon.

Chocolate milk stout. Og 1.085, seems to have stopped at 1.024. I put 1 cup of lactose and almost as much cocoa powder in it with 10 minutes remaining in the boil. Been in fermenter for 2.5 weeks. I've only had 1 infected batch ever and it sort of looked like this . I've never used lactose...

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Well, how was it? I'm pondering buying some 2014 Orbit hops.

Same yeast strain as WLP530 or WY3787. No real need to bother unless you just really want to.

Do yourself a favor and leave it alone for at least 2 weeks. You don't want to see what the yeast are doing anyway. :)

I tried this method tonight and it worked great! It is a bit hard to get the stuff to dissolve, but it didn't seem to matter.

okay, so how'd it turn out? (FYI I found this thread searching for info on K-97 yeast)

The smell that burns your nose could simply be the CO2 in there. Inhaling pure CO2 burns, let me tell you. And it chokes you up nicely. heh. don't take a huge whiff from inside the bucket. :)

You could use Malto dexterine also. Should have the same/similar effect.

This doesn't make any sense if your beer dispensing line is hooked up to the same place as the dip tube (top and bottom, respectively). There is no way to get only air from it unless it has a big hole/leak in it or the connection.

That is awesome. The last place I worked used some of those in our common use rooms.

I (and the wife) made a BIAB bag a couple weeks ago. I'll try to remember to take a pic tonight. I'd been using the 5 gallon paint strainer bags, but they were just too small and I got poor efficiency. I still use the 1 gallon bags for hop bags, though if I do something with lots of hope (more...

The Blue "rich chocolate" Ovaltine is mostly sugar, not malt. I wouldn't use it. The "chocolate malt" ovaltine has cocoa over the original, but also its number one ingredient is sugar, not malt. I cannot imagine that using it would turn out any better, sadly. If anything, using the original...

I recently made a fine tasting Pale Ale out of Mr. Beer ingredients that someone gave me. I mini mashed about 3 lbs of pale malt with about 6oz Crystal 60 and boiled to add some late addition Cascade hops (.5oz at 15 min, .5oz at 5 min), then added the 2 cans of Mr Beer "West Coast Pale Ale"...