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Fwiw the bakers chocolate flavor is coming from the choc wheat malt most likely. That's a lot. Try tasting some raw, and comparing to your roasted nibs.

Their goal is to rate the beer not improve your brewing, simple as that. Entering into competitions is not an efficient way to get feedback. The amount of brews they need to sift through while still caring is very high, cut them some slack.

With the number of varieties were talking about there are way too many options to brute force our way through so i like the educated guessing and tweaking method. Equal weights is probably a good starting point to keep it simple. Mt Hood or Willamette/US Fuggles seem like good ideas for the...

Thanks, and just a basic ale yeast? Or do you go with a mead yeast or something else..?

Care to share the recipe/link?

You don't need the DAP imo. It won't kill your beer to skip it. Also the general feeling from other posts in the thread is that it's a touch too bitter so maybe consider backing down the 60 min hops... (?)

I can't believe this thread has devolved into speculating about nesquik being in the beer. The brew masters would be rofling if they read this. Has artificial flavor ever been used in beer? Yes. Is it in this beer and even more, is it prevalent and specifically a commercially available gross...

6 oz is probably good, I'd caution against toasting too hot or too long.

Seems a bit high on both the chocolate wheat and the black malt but still worth a shot. Let us know how it turns out.

POTDA Just seeing this now... GQT gets my vote for post of three days ago.

Looks good overall. It will come out quite bitter. You might consider having no 60 min addition and reserving the extra 10 grams for extra 15 minute addition. That would get you to about 28 ibu, better balance, less bitter, more flavor/aroma.

I thought that was only a limited release. Hmm

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Hopefully a straight forward question with a straight forward answer... Is pacman still harvestable from a Dead Guy bomber?

I had an old d-180, about that old. It was slightly crystallized but still tasted good and did a good job. Just be sure to,shake well and make sure you get the full contents of the pack, don't lose out on the crystals. I'll let CSI comment on whether it's bad for brewing, in my experience it was...