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I held my nibs on vodka for one week and added the 300ml of vodka along with the nibs to the fermenter. I'd have to check notes but I think I let the beer sit on the nibs for a week as week it may have two. As for the coconut I'm not sure I do know that the vodka will extract a fair amount of...

It's a "specialty stout" Smoked chocolate oatmeal stout.... That's a mouth full I know mildly smokey with some Carmel and chocolate notes and thick as motor oil.

I second just topping up with vodka. I placed 4oz of nibs in vodka for a week for sanitation and flavor extract. After a week in vodka it smelled and looked like chocolate syrup. (What else would you expect from cocoa nibs? :)) The beer came out amazing, had to hide it form the wife as she was...

I've noticed on a few of my high gravity beers they will tend to blow the vodka out of the airlock in about 2 days are fermentation starts. so I would have to guess an aggressive fermentation. I'm not a pro by no means just going by what I've seen for myself. The few HG batches that dried the...

So I've narrowed down my issue to extract twang. I made a Belgian Wit that was a Brewers Best kit and received the exact same results. I followed the tips provided and fermented in a fermentation chamber at 68 (beer temp). I started talking to my local shop about their extract kits and they see...

Link to portions of Palmer's book: http://howtobrew.com/ The basics are laid out and should point you in the right direction. The web page is kind of funky at times but dig through that. You will learn a ton. This is where I started just three months ago.

No need for encouragement. I appreciate it though! I've read through three books at this point and I need to revisit them all to retain information that I missed. I do have two beers at this point that I've had people say that. One of those two beers I thought was a complete failure, but my...

Thanks for the help ya'll! I'll take the advise to lower ferm temps and I like the idea of the bottled water in the fridge. I've recently added temp strips to my fermenters as well as temp monitoring near the fermenters. Lets see how the next batch turns out.

Thanks for the response Transam. The first batch was Nottingham and the second was S05. No not alcohol or heat. More like bitter, but odd. Some what similar to green beer, but it's (the second batch) been in the bottle for around 6 weeks now. OK, I thought that was OK to do with the...

First post... So I'm a few batches in and have had great success. Except for two batches. :( They were both Amber Ale extract kits and both have the same off flavor. Actions: Followed brew schedule to the letter on both batches. Steeped grain for 20m as instructed. Pitched (dry)yeast...