Adding ingredients to fermenter?

[edco76]

So I have a milk stout that has been fermenting for 2 weeks. I have 8oz cacoa nibs that have been soaking in vodka for one week.

Plan was to add the nibs and vodka today, let sit a week and then bottle.

But now that it is time to do it, I'm not sure how.

I have 5 gallons in a 6 gallon glass carboy.

I'm pretty sure when I dump in all those nibs and vodka, it's going to do a lot of splashing. Won't this oxygenate the beer?

Is there a trick or technique? Or will the splashing and sloshing not matter?

I also have an empty 5 gallon carboy if a secondary would be better.

 

[sww35]

I have cacoa nibs for a stout also but was curious if i add them to the boil or to the fermenter myself? I only have 4 ounces though. Anyhow an idea that i just thought of and have never tried,....you could sterilze a funnel add a small hose to the end that is also sterile and filter them into the carboy in tha fashion.

 

[microbusbrewery]

Why are you adding the nibs along with the vodka? You've made a tincture and by doing so already extracted the flavor from the nibs, so you should just add the vodka tincture.

Here's a good writeup on how to use it: http://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/cacao-nib-extract-drew-way

 

[m00ps]

I always add cacao nibs by boiling them in water and dumping the whole solution in. There will be a blanket of CO2 above the beer in the fermentor and its not like the nibs do a belly flop into the beer. Just pour gently down the side of the fermentor. Never had any oxidation adding 50+ random ingredients this way. I'd only use a secondary for like multiple pounds of some fruit or something

 

[Natdavis777]

Id say just put your cacao tincture in the bottling bucket before racking the beer in, which should thoroughly mix everything into solution. I dump my tincture into the keg before racking into it and they have came out nicely.

I soak my nibs in a mason jar for a week or two, then when ready, I wrap panty hose over the mouth and strain the liquid out that way and store in a sanitized bottle until ready to use.