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I'm going to spice up a chocolate stout extract/steeping grains recipe with habanero. Going for some flavor, some heat in the background behind the chocolate without overdoing the spice. I was thinking I would slice and roast, possibly a vodka soak, put some in the last 15min of the boil and...

Hey all. Brewed a porter with plans for bourbon soaked oak cubes in the secondary. Soaked the cubes in Makers for about 72 hrs prior to dumping into the secondary with a good amount of the bourbon (about 10 ounces). It appeared to me that the fermentation restarted slowly with this move, had...

Soooo...Brewed a robust porter yesterday. Everything went smoothly. Pitched at 78. Rocking fermentation within 2 hours. Looked like it was really rocking 8 hrs later when I went to bed with pride...thought about a blow off tube but then thought..nah, it should be OK. Woke up this AM to...

Brewed an extract porter. Windsor dry yeast pitched a little warm around low to mid 80s. Vigorous fermentation for about 18 hrs then very little. Checked gravity and it had actually done pretty well in that short a time but I was concerned I may have pitched too hot and was stuck. Added...