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In the midst of transferring my 6.3% ABV porter into secondary..my Auto-Cyphen failed on me! :( So, in order to get the beer into the secondary carboy I ended up having to use the funnel and pour the beer from primary to secondary. This obviously introduced a ton of oxygen into the beer...

I agree. 2#s is over kill. I got great coconut flavor with less.

Does anyone know if adding coconut water would be a way to increase the coconut flavor? Although, the sugars in the coconut water would likely ferment out.

I am looking forward to my third year in a row of this bad boy. I tweak it a little bit each year but it was always a huge success.

I would really like to try making a Prickly Pear flavored ale, but am running into some conflicts. I was thinking that I could just add the syrup (which has cane sugar) into secondary, but then I realized that that would be a fermentable sugar. So, then I was thinking that I could just...

sounds like a fat tire clone

Hey thanks for the update. Finally, someone actually sticks around the thread to say how the beer turned out! Hey do you know of any other way to get the fruit other than harvesting it your self? Can you buy some sort of syrup or jam? If so, where? Thanks in advance!

This post is identical to what just happened to me. Steeping the grains then...oh crap!

How did this turn out? I am going to make a milk stout with a similar recipe, likely with a little less malt. Any recommendations?

Oh sweet, Thanks. Should I just let it sit in primary? Or should I eventaully transfer it to secondary?

Exactly. And good question. Anyone know?

I recently got the the ingrediants to make a Kolsch ale, including White Labs liquid Kolsch yeast. I just realized that you are supposed to lager this beer after a fairly cold fermentation. I think that the coldest that I can ferment this would be about 64 degrees. And I cannot lager it...

I have a similar problem. I get a sharp taste on the back end that I am almost positive comes from some aspect of bottling. I know this because when i sample the beer prior to bottling, the beer tastes great and does not have this sharp after taste. Did you ever rule out what the cause was?

+5 vanilla strong +5 hoppy red +5 session ale =7003

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