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If I remember right it was an ounce per 5 gallon?

Sticks are what has been used in the past, they just aren’t available anymore or I probably would have used them. Lots of warnings about adding early to boil to make sure they dissolve in threads I’ve read, no personal experience.

Here’s the recipe https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1038698/kalamazoo-stout-clone the “allspice” is actually brewers licorice drops but there is no choice for that. I used 1 package for 10 gallons finished. Started drinking it too soon, by 2 months of cold conditioning the...

FWIW I didn’t notice much licorice flavor initially from 1 oz in a 10 gallon batch but 8 weeks of storage at 35 F brought it out and smoothed out the flavor. Happy with the result.

Following. Attempted a clone of Kalamazoo stout that is aging in the keg at the moment. Other attempts people posted were all with the sticks, which are roughly 0.7oz. I tried the 1 oz pack in a 10 gallon finished batch.

I’m daisy chaining 2 sanke kegs to the fermentor to purge co2. When I drop trub both times I’ll be connected to a co2 tank with low psi, same with cold crash and transfer. All EVA tubing. Pulling out all the stops I can think of to eliminate O2 from the equation.

I followed theelectricbrewery.com recipe for their Hop Candy NEIPA. It calls for dry hop at high krausen and a few days before kegging. I tasted a specific gravity sample and was horrified at the burning astringency which I assume was hop burn. However it was mostly gone after cold crashing to...

If u made a strong starter, with an airlock to blow off O2, and it’s done all the budding it needs to, could you add that to non aerated wort? Would that go straight to fermenting, minimizing oxygen?

Wow P chem flashback. Looks like the diffusion constants are for two pure gases at same temps. Obviously weather happens so temperature difference is a significant barrier to diffusion with the same gas, even with significant turbulence. I don’t know enough about meteorology to model that. My...

Yes there is turbulence, just like when a cold front pushes out a warm front. But eventually it’s just the cold air that’s left. That example is with the same atmospheric gas at different temps, but retrograde filling of CO2 through the dip tube puts the heavier and colder gas inferior to the...

So instead of filling the keg with starsan and pushing out with CO2 to purge oxygen, I pushed CO2 retrograde through the dip tube with the gas port open. The CO2 is from the keezer at 36F. Like a cold front pushing out a warm front, the temperature difference between room air should cause...

Well, bells two hearted won best beer in America...did u see the video above from bells that they say they use Kalamazoo water for Oberon?

Even their clone hazy ipa has Kalamazoo water listed with the recipe for reference. Hard to believe they wouldn’t adjust for that brew but who knows. Wasn’t that impressed with it when I tried it, but you never know how old it is, also in a can. Let us know how it turns out.

Does beer smith hit OG, FG, and ABV without acidification? Does it change anything if you drop the pH? I plug Kalamazoo water into brewers friend and my Oberon clone recipe there hits all the numbers dead on.

Is that more typical of stout? Seemed to be the only thing that would get the published ABV from their OG of 1.065. Brewers licorice in the mail, will be the next brew for me.