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Has anyone brewed a spruce beer with using spruce essence??? Did the spruce age to be more subtle? If so, how long dis this take?

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This is my first spruce beer. When the wort boil was finished the beer smelled delicious. Slightly sweet and malty with a subtle but sharp aroma of hops and spruce undertones...probably one of the best aromas ever experienced :) Now the beer at 1.5 weeks retains that similar aroma, but perhaps...

I think you are exactly right and that is most definitely what happened. I'm not sure why I even did a secondary with a stout to begin with...probably because I didn't have time to bottle at that point in time. I'm sure there was not enough live yeast to properly carbonate/prime when I...

I used spruce extract as per the recipe, just 3/4oz instead of the asked 1oz. Sorry I should've specified.

That stout never did Prime correctly? A few of the beers (like 3) had a nice creamy head, but the rest if my bottles (~25 24oz bottles) had no head and tasted great but they were just flat. The extra .5oz of boiling hops added a bit more hoppiness to the stout, but it tasted great. I have a...

This may already be posted somewhere but i didn't feel like looking for it. I just finished a batch of black honey spruce from Papazian's joy of 'brewing and at the end of the primary it smells amazing but tastes pretty bad! I was worried at first bc my wort chiller wasn't operational so I got...

Yea I primed it with corn sugar. That's kind of what I was thinking. Since it may have a little higher ABV it may take a little longer to carbonate. I wasn't sure because I know stouts don't have crazy head to them anyway, but just checking. Thanks

I just brewed the Papazian recipe for the Cushlomachree stout in his book. The brew went fine and I left it in the primary for about 2-3 weeks then put it in the secondary for about a week even though fermentation was done I just wanted to separate it from the yeast cake. Maybe a bad idea I'm...

I filled my airlock with 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol which was the advice of a seasoned brewer friend even though I thought it was probably a bad idea. Well I think I was right. I am making a 5 gallon batch of stout and my yeast went crazy in the first 24 hrs. and my airlock was filled with...

I filled my airlock with 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol which was the advice of a seasoned brewer friend even though I thought it was probably a bad idea. Well I think I was right. I am making a 5 gallon batch of stout and my yeast went crazy in the first 24 hrs. and my airlock was filled with...