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3 weeks ago I brewed an Imperial Stout with 6 oz of cocoa powder @ 5 min in the boil. I am planning to rack it soon and give it the "Mayan Cocoa" treatment of vanilla, pepper and cinnamon. There is a nice chocolate aroma and flavor in the beer already (although if needed it can sit on some nibs...

I love big stouts and have been wanting to brew one for awhile so I've decided to take the plunge this Sunday and brew up something in the 1.100ish range while I still have a good 6-8 months for conditioning before wintertime stout drinking weather rolls back around. As a happy coincidence...

Tomorrow I am brewing a stout with the following recipe. I have been waffling back and forth between adding oats or adding some flaked barley for body. I like oatmeal stouts, but I know barley is pretty standard as well. If anyone has a reason for one over the other, I'd love to hear it! Any...

So I just noticed today that my first year Columbus plant has both cones and seed clusters growing on it. Down low its almost all cones, which I think is why I didn't notice sooner, but higher up there are tons of seeds. Is this a male plant? Or I've heard they can sometimes be hermaphrodites...

One of the local papers in Portland had a full page Widmer ad in yesterday's edition. It contains their actual Alt recipe, and I figured I'd share since its a delicious beer! This Alt was the Widmer Bro's first commercial brew, however, it was the Hef that caught on and became popular... So...

I brewed a porter on Wednesday evening, using White Labs Irish ale yeast that was washed from a previous batch 2 mos ago. I made a 2.75 L starter (per mrmalty's calculator) and chilled/decanted before pitching. I pitched the yeast at 66*, aerated, then put the fermenter in the closet I use in...