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Ok. Thanks!

Got thinking about this beer again and was wondering...the coffee really countered the sweetness of a big brown like this. By removing the coffee and racking beer onto cherries will it be too sweet? Was thinking of Adding bourbon barrel chips to half the batch. Should I increase the hop...

Yeah I was not planning on doing the coffee just using the base Brown to build off. I wasn’t that worried about the cherries and a secondary fermentation bc I was gonna leave it in the secondary for at least a month. I assume most of the fermentables would be eaten up in that time.

Sounds tasty! Do you toast the coconut? I assume it’s in the secondary. If you ever get out to Breckenridge, find Broken Arrow Coconut Porter.

Found this on the BeerAdvocate forum. Looks pretty similar from what I can tell (though i’m not expert at building clone recipes). Supposedly turned out well. Grain bill: 14.0# 2-row 3.5# Munich Malt, 10L 1.25# Crystal, 60L 1.0# Aromatic Malt 0.75# Chocolate Malt 1.0# Flaked Barley Hop Bill...

Do what do you think about using Founders Sumatra mountain Brown as the base recipe sub out coffee and replace with the cherries? I really love that beer.

Thanks for the all the good ideas! Appreciate it!

Actually I really think a beer like this would be awesome barrel aged or at least the home brew version of barrel aging:)

Thanks! I’ve been leery of trying fruit bc so many are just over the top and I’ve had some cherry stouts that taste medicinal. They almost verge on a Robitussin-like taste. I def don’t want those flavors.

so I’ve got this idea but don’t have a good Imp brown recipe. I’ve never worked with fruit either. Most recipes call for racking the beer onto them in the secondary, but have no clue how much to use. I want the complexity and flavor without getting a ton of additional sweetness from the fruit...

So I've got an IIPA with WL Vermont yeast going but activity dropped off really fast after 36 hrs of monster fermentation. I had foam coming out of the blowoff tube yesterday and today there was the barest of bubbling happening. I did a pretty good size starter but am wondering if my...