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I let the wife decide on what to do with a stout. She picked chocolate raspberry. I have the raspberry extract, but not sure how or what kind of chocolate to add. What have you had good experience with? What amount is appropriate for a stout with another flavor involved? thanks in advance

My dilema is this, the wife and I will be going to stay with some friends for 2 nights starting sept. 8th and I would like to take them a gift of some of my brew. They have had my brew before(they lived next door before moving out of town) and they tend to like the odd things I make. I...

So, after going off for my anniversary and being running around a lot, i racked my RIS to secondary for some conditioning 2 weeks ago after being in primary for 3 weeks. I looked at it this morning before heading to work and there is a nice thin layer of white fuzzy stuff on the top :eek: (pic...

I have not brewed this yet, looking for some feedback and general guidance Its a Barley Wine Braggot mix 5 gal batch 3.5 lbs pale malt 3.5 lbs light extract 1.5 lbs CaraMalt 1.5 lbs Dark Munich 6.5 lbs honey 1 oz Kent Goldings @ 60 min 1.5 oz Fuggles @ 60 min 2 oz Willimite @ 30...

I was thinking of making a barleywine braggot and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on which way to proceed. 1. make 2.5 gals each of a barleywine and mead and blend before bottling or 2. make 5 gals of barleywine and use honey as 50% of the fermentables.

After doing a search and some reading, a stout faucet 1. requires beer gas 2. does nothing else other than give you that "creamy" head is that it, or am i missing something?:confused: does it add some creaminess to the whole glass or just the head?

Found myself a cheap little mini fridge on craigslist last weekend. It was still in the car when I got to work on Monday at the cabinet shop. The boss traded the full size shop fridge for it after I told him I was going to build a cabinet and move the guts!!! Its still at the shop for now...

Does anyone have any experience building a kegerator from scratch? I got a cheap little mini fridge and was thinking of building a cabinet and moving the compressor and coils and all the pieces from the fridge to the cabinet.

I got my hands on a really cheap mini fridge, but its only big enough for one keg and that doesn't work for me. I don't want to waste it, and was thinking of just building a cabinet from scratch and moving the business parts onto said cabinet. Good thing I work in a cabinet shop. Does...

I have a recipe for a chocolate trappist that calls for 8lbs of Mountmelick irish stout extract. I don't know if this is a dry or liquid extract and what to replace it with. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appriciated. ~erkwist

Hello all! New to the site, have been brewing for several years now, nothing big, mostly what ya can get done while living in small apartments. Now that I have a house I will hopefully be stepping up to more. ~Erk