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Racked my dopplebock today on top of the 3 pounds of pecans and 3 vanilla beans that have been split, scraped and soaking in vodka for 3 months. Roasted the pecans one last time then did a dunk in star san, hoping the nasties are gone and we don't have any infections

Thanks dude! i had seen simialr recipes, and lots of people use pecans in mash which would eliminate the need for the vodka or star san altogether. What I was going for was a clone of Southern Slice. I spoke with Wayne of CCB who gave me the hint that they did not mash with pecans and instead...

Hmmm, freezing is an interesting idea! I considered vodka, but again it would have been A LOT to add to the beer. I'm sure the taste would have been noticable. Unfort, I've already racked to secondary today!

I considered this but I'm using 3 pounds of pecans, it's a ton of pecans that I'd have to cover. As mentioned in a previous reply I'm also using Vanilla beans that are soaking in vodka too. I think if I added the pecan vodka I'd be over the limit of what can go in with out affecting the beer...

Great info. Thank you for your reply! I think I might do a quick dunk in star san over vodka. I'm also adding a Vanilla bean tincure that has been soaking in vodka so I'm really worried about adding any more vodka to the beer.

I've read that when using pecans it's best to roast them then place them in paper bags to allow some of the oils to soak in to the bags. I've seen posts in regards to the Lazy Magnolia Pecan beer that the process should be done 2-3 times but I was wondering if anyone out there has tried this...

Thanks Sammy, I appreciate it! We do a little bit of everything... home brewing, tasting/reviews, brewery tours etc... Seems like I get most of my traffic from homebrewing so we'll probably start focusing on that more in the future. Cheers!

Here's the tasting video and review. Not quite what I was hoping for, but a good sweet stout none the less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Za-9wrSPoU

Just posted the video from brew day. I'll be cracking this one real soon (this weekend maybe) and filming the results for the next episode.

Hey yall! I filmed a video for my youtube show "The Beer Chasers" documenting the stout. You can view it in the link below if you'd like. I'll be tasting this real soon and will have a follow up for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenr64E7V0c

Transferred to secondary on Sunday and stole a taste... The beer is nice and sweet with a touch of graham/honey. The chocolate is tasting slightly under what I would like, but I still have the Cocoa nib addition to get more choco flavor. If I was a betting man I'd say the graham/honey flavor...

Welp, brewed the beer today! One change to the recipe is that the Victoryh malt ended up being 24 oz instead of 12. I made a mistake when ordering my grains. This changed the OG to 1.081. Came in at 1.071, .010 lower than BeerSmith calculated but I blame it on the Graham cracker calculation...

Thanks! I usually get excited for brew day, but I'm SUPER excited for this one. Thursday can't come soon enough!

Woops sorry! If I'm reading BS correct, the Est. OG is 1.077 and the Est. FG is 1.026. Not sure how accurate it is though since the Graham cracker I'm not sure if it's truly accurate on what it adds to the mash. I read on a Beer Smith forum post that the gravity for it was 1.035 so that's...

Thanks for all the help everyone! So I've plugged a recipe in to beersmith and will be brewing this on Thursday. Here's what I've settled on for my first attempt: 2 lbs 11.2 oz Graham Cracker (3-14.4 oz boxes) (3.0 SRM) 17.2 % 1 lbs Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) 6.4 % 7 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter...