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Just wanted to update... This beer finished with fantastic results. I ended up "aging" in the keg for a couple more weeks before force carbing. ABV: 11.8% with plenty of residual sweetness and barrel flavor. I named it Mind Flayer, which seemed appropriate ;). It was almost indistinguishable...

Yes, I meant aging in the keg over low CO2 at cellar temp for a few months. To be honest, I'm not really sure if and how aging will improve this beer if done in this way, so it would be mostly to make it sound cooler when I serve it up to friends. Ha! Thanks for the feedback.

Awesome. Thank you! I'm still a newbie so confirmation that I'm not totally screwing up really helps. Do you think there is any advantage to kegging, purging and letting it sit in the keg?

According to my notes it was 1.036 into secondary. I did dump 12oz of bourbon into it as well, so I'm guessing that helped to bring it down along with a little more fermentation in secondary? Thanks for the helpful info! I'll probably keg and reply with how it turned out.

I figured from what I've read about similar brews. Sometimes I guess it's best to leave well enough alone and enjoy some beer, yeah?

I brewed my own recipe that started with Northern Brewers Dragon's Silk extract kit as the base recipe. (See recipe here: https://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/DragonsSilk.pdf) My intention was to add lactose, bourbon soaked vanilla beans cocoa nibs and medium toast oak cubes to...