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And on a total side note- I'm a cook, and the chef that I work under is looking to make a unique product to sell in a local store. My idea was to take this home brew, which has good notes of chocolate, coffee, and vanilla, and reduce it and make it into a chocolate/hot fudge sauce for home brew...

Yeah buddy! I prefer Bushmills to Jameson also, just went for the traditional car bomb. Midwest supplies sells a sort of Baileys concentrate, which I'm also considering using on my 2nd attempt.

That's cool. I would still urge you to up to ante on the Jameson's while you still can. With 2 cups you won't be able to detect it. Nobody that tasted mine was able to.

I did a secondary with mine, and added the entire contents(the beans and their seeds and everything) hoping to get the most out of the vanilla flavor. I think it worked well but I don't have any evidence to say that it wouldn't work as well with only a primary. Guess my thought was that the...

And, yes I suppose more whiskey could be added at bottling. Since it was my first try, I didn't really know how much would be enough, or too much. Next time I will bump it up from 2 cups of Jameson to 3.

OG was 1.060 and FG was right around 1.014 for an est. 6.03% abv. Not bad. It was it was nice and drinkable, but I think I wanted something more big and impressive. I knew from research that it wouldn't be exactly like an Irish car bomb but I was hoping for a good vanilla stout, which it was...

Hello! OP here. Glad to see interest on the topic. My car bomb stout really turned out great, better than expected. My only real change next time would be to pump up the gravity a bit. Just needed a little more strength. The vanilla flavor was upfront and fantastic for the first month or so...

Couple weeks ago I brewed a black IPA from extract. While steeping the grains I left the kitchen, only to return and find my temp was around 190 F....Doh! I pulled the grain bag out immediately, and forged on. When I transferred to secondary last week I took a taste and I found it to be...

And the color is nice. Really not even as black as I thought it would be, even with a 3 gallon boil. Maybe the lactose adds a lighter shade to it?

Thanks for the info. Already started my boil, so everybody is in the pool but my last two hop additions. Smells good so far! Does anyone think 37 IBU's is too much for this project? I really don't know. Obviously, I'm just looking to balance this thing a little, not much more than that.

That's the plan.

Hey there, fellow brew brothers and sisters. I came upon this idea here on HBT forums and it was too good to NOT give it a shot. I'm still an extract brewer with around 8 batches under my belt- so maybe it's a little out of my league. But I am fearless and stupid so here we go! I will take any...

Awesome. Thanks! Picked up some OxyClean tonight so I'll give that a shot. My jet bottle washer is too big to fit the tube.

How do you guys clean these things? I've been running as much water through them as I can, and fully submerging it in sanitizer, but after it is dry I can still smell homebrew in there. Don't want something this small to ruin a good batch of brew during transfer or bottling. Thanks!

Fantastic. Thanks for the intel, guys. I am trying to brew an American Pale Ale with nice hop flavor, aroma and an actual "pale" color, so thats helpful! I was planning on adding an ounce of Cascades at knockout, but maybe i will wait that extra time and add it at pitching time. djfriesen, how...