I am hoping I can get some advice on the best way to add some slight coffee flavor to a Imperial Stout that I have in secondary fermentation. I plan on having this stout in secondary for about 4 months and have never added any flavors to any of my beers during secondary besides dry hops. I think...
A double ipa kit that we purchased states that primary should be 1-2 weeks and then a secondary fermenation of 4-6 weeks. We are hopheads and plan to dry hop to achieve additional aroma and maybe a little bitterness, so we plan to dry hop during the secondary fermentation. I have read that...
I have several questions... about 3 weeks ago we brewed a double ipa and all has gone perfectly. The beer was in primary for 2 weeks. We then racked it into a glass carboy for secondary and dry hopped it. It now has been in secondary for 7 days with dry hops the entire time. We'd like to...
Thank you all for your replies and suggestions! Since this is my first time attempting to harvest yeast I had a lot to learn. I did follow many of yours advice and started to wash them to get some of the hops out and it worked great. I have now ended up with about 3 full mason jars of nice...
We just racked a double IPA (which had 16 ounces of hop pellets in the brew) into secondary carboy for some dry hopping. I want to save the yeast from the primary to use in a future double IPA. We read all the advice and watched several videos about the procedure and all went well except now...
This is the first time that I will be pitching a yeast starter and was wondering when I pour the starter into the wort, should I stir it or just pour it in and leave it?
Thanks for the help.