huffman
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Brewing for me has always gone pretty much the same. Pour the wort into a 5 gal carboy, pitch the yeast, hard steady fermentation & foam blowing off the next morning, pretty much done in 6~10 days. Not this time, very slow but steady fermentation that remained at the same pace for several weeks. Never hard enough for any foam to move down the blowoff tube. Cocoa settled to the bottom, got a mix of mostly fine but some unusually large bubbles (smaller than a pea) coming up from the bottom.
Used the Alternative Beverages English Oatmeal Stout kit with the addition of 8 oz. of Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa (powdered) to the boil. Yeast was Windsor dry, have used Windsor dozens of times without fail. Any thoughts, wasn't really that tasty at bottling but I'll wait a couple months to see what transpires before coming to a final decision.
Used the Alternative Beverages English Oatmeal Stout kit with the addition of 8 oz. of Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa (powdered) to the boil. Yeast was Windsor dry, have used Windsor dozens of times without fail. Any thoughts, wasn't really that tasty at bottling but I'll wait a couple months to see what transpires before coming to a final decision.