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I added the lactose to the boil 10 min before flameout. Pretty sure it's not for priming.

If it is still in fermentation these should drop out as the beer clears. IT looked pretty hideous in the carboy at first but tastes great now. triat00 >> I bumped the base malt to 5kg and only used half the lactose in recipe. OG was around 1.065. Also didn't have chocolate extract. Still...

I have a noobs question about ph levels...the water we are using (local spring water) has a ph pf 8-8.5 i think which seems incredibly high. Should we be adding salts to lower the ph or will simply boiling the sparge water solve any flavor issues? We seem to consistently have a slightly...

*chocolate extract sorry

So just the usual cup of malt extract or should i lower it to counter for the sugar content of the extract? Just a little worried about stout exploding all over my carpet!

Was the chocolate extract the only priming sugar added. I don't have a keg but would like to give this a crack so wondering what to prime with. Also where to get milk sugar?

Just wondering how long the standard plastic fermenting buckets will last. Mine seem to have a pretty strong 'plastic' smell when empty. I recently bought a new one which had much less smell to it. The other buckets are about 3-4 years old and have seen a few brews. Can these old buckets...