Recent content by nbolds442

I was hoping for something faster, and I don't have a beer gun. I wanted the bottle conditioning because I have heard that bottle conditioned beers age better. Why don't you think I can bottle condition it at this point (I was planning to re-pitch a touch of yeast)?

So I put my barrel aged in RIS into a keg to get it off the wood and put it on gas to seal the keg and keep it under positive pressure. Fast forward 6 months of life getting in the way of brewing and I have a force carbed RIS in a keg that I wanted to bottle condition and lay down for a couple...

I am thinking about trying my hand at formulating the recipe, but wanted to know if you found anything/had a jumping off point yet.

OK how did I screw this up? I used the mill run stout recipe from John Palmer's book Extract with specialty version (here http://www.howtobrew.com/section4/chapter19-3.html) added 8 cups of coffee and had an OG of 1.054 Target was 1.052. Seemed a bit light, but I though it might darken a bit...