I just made 5 gallons of an oatmeal stout. I want to put one gallon in a secondary glass carboy with vanilla and another with bourbon soaked oak and vanilla. Do I have to put the rest in a 3 gallon container or can I leave it in the primary fermentation bucket?
The guy at my brew supply store said I can just add the vanilla extract to my bottling bucket and bottle from there. Will that hurt the flavor? Will the yeast in the bottle eat the extract? Is secondary fermenting the only way to get the vanilla taste you're talking about. I also added a...
Brewed my first beer 6 weeks ago and it was a great success. Everyone loved it and I found that 48 bottles of beer wasn't a lot of beer at all. Working on a Nut Brown Ale from True Brew and then hopefuly going on to my first extract recipe after that. The only problem with that is that I...