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Last question... I think. Does anyone know if cocoa powder has any oils that would inhibit any head retention or carbonation?

Thanks for the input everyone. As far as amount goes, will 1/2 # be enough for the flavor to come through if I put it in the last 5 or 10 minutes of the boil? Too much? Also, does the cocoa powder contain fermentable sugars?

The first thing I looked at were the ingredients. High fructose corn looked like instant headache to me. Any recommended cocoa powders to use?

I'm putting together a recipe for a chocolate stout, however, I cannot figure out which is better for the flavoring. Good ol' Hershey's syrup or cocoa powder??? It would be added to the last 5 minutes of the boil as far as I see. Any suggestions?

I've been dry hopping an IIPA in secondary for almost 4 weeks now, after 10 days in primary. I put in 7 oz of pellet hops for the dry hop and have seen them fall out of suspension and then return to float at the top the very next day. It has done this twice now and at the moment I have a 1/2...

I'm attempting to build my first recipe from scratch and am curious about the fermentability (hopefully that is an accurate term) of brown sugar. I've read all sorts of different opinions on this and have boiled it down to using C & H Golden or Dark Brown Sugar, both 100% cane. I have two...

Yes, its a Red Hook ESB clone and I am extremely looking forward to it!!! To clarify though, the yeast is not a smack pack, it's one of the WL liquid tubes. As long as old yeast doesn't give off flavors I can manage to extend my patience a few days...

I'm going to be brewing up a Red Hook clone this afternoon and just noticed that my White Labs CA pale ale yeast has a "best by" date of November 2006. I figured I'd pitch it anyways and give it a day or two to see if it takes off. If not, get fresh yeast and re-pitch. But now the internal...

It's good to hear that not all is lost. I'll bring about half inside the house to see any difference and test the other half with more time in the garage. I'm still pretty hopeful, as the glass is always half-full!

Primed with 3/4 cup dextrose dissolved in 16 oz. I poured this into the sanitized bottling bucket then racked the beer into it. I bottled on 11/12 and stored them in a large plastic "tote" type container in the garage. Temps have probably ranged between the low 60s at night and low to mid 70s...

I've brewed two batches and just tasted my first! It was a "Teddy" Porter, the taste was suprisingly great. We even did the Pepsi challenge with the Old Tadcaster. Again, tasted great, however there was barely any carbonation which seemed to be the only characteristic lacking, thus no head...

New, yet all ready addicted, to the home-brewing experience, along with this forum. Please note this as I will more than likely be be asking plenty of rudimentary and extremely advanced (in my own mind) questions at the same time. In other words, humbly, hello. Being my first post, here's...