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I am super happy to hear this. I just bottled 5 gallons of an imperial stout that spent about 10 days with Maker's soaked oak chips and when i was sampling it tasted terribly bitter. I thought I used too many chips even though I could not have used more then 1.5 ozs.

It seemed done fermenting, I took my second reading 2 weeks after the violent bubbling stopped.

Been slow on reporting this, but I just opened the first bottle yesterday and it was good, not the best, but definitely beer. Before I moved load into bottles and added priming sugar the FG reading was 1.035. According to a calculator on the internet that works out to ~8% alcohol by volume and...

Fermenting is a go. I'll report my FG reading in a few days. Since this beer is over-concentrated (25% of ingredients for 20% of the volume) would it be okay to dilute it in the bottling stage?

Hey everyone, I looked through this forums but I didn't see any similar question as mine get answered. I am very new to brewing (this is my 2nd try). I have a one gallon kit from for now, so I when I bought the Brewer's Best kit of a milk stout I just subdivided the ingredients out. I was...