Chocolatey_Stoutz
Member
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2013
- Messages
- 21
- Reaction score
- 0
This is my first foray into homebrewing. I opted to start with the Thundercookie Gingerbread Stout kit offered by Jasper's Home Brewing at Boomchugalug.com. (They offer exceptionally high quality kits by the way.) I added unsweetened cocoa powder and 4.oz of semisweet bakers chocolate at the end of the boil. I pitched dry yeast and within a couple of hours my airlock was intensely bubbling right along. This lasted for approximately 20 hours. I went to sleep to a fervently fermenting wort and awoke just a couple short hours thereafter and found myb airlock had signifucantly slowed to about 8 bubbles a minute. By the second day my airlock was bubbling only once every 30 seconds or so. On the third night my airlock was barely bubbling once a minute.
I tried to swirl my fermenting bucket, but mostly ended up shaking and sloshing around the wort inside. I was hoping this would kickstart the yeasties again. They were doing so good and I was so proud.
I am now reading this may cause my beer to taste bitter. Which you can probably tell by the whole gingerbread cookie and cocoa powder, bakers chocolate and nibs motiff, this is the last thing I want. (I'll be adding the nibs to the secondary.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to swirl my fermenting bucket, but mostly ended up shaking and sloshing around the wort inside. I was hoping this would kickstart the yeasties again. They were doing so good and I was so proud.
I am now reading this may cause my beer to taste bitter. Which you can probably tell by the whole gingerbread cookie and cocoa powder, bakers chocolate and nibs motiff, this is the last thing I want. (I'll be adding the nibs to the secondary.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.