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Looking for opinions about using roasted hazelnuts vs. hazelnut extract. My current plan is to use some real hazelnuts (about 8 oz) in secondary--either buying them raw and roasting them myself or buying them roasted and using bourbon/vodka to sanitize them. Will hazelnuts impart a good...

Thanks all. It looks like I should at least plan on sanitizing them to be safe. I'll decide between the oven and a little vodka/bourbon later.

I'm about to make my 5th batch of beer. I'm going pretty experimental this time, and I'm planning on adding either 4 or 8 oz of cacao nibs during secondary fermentation. The question is, how do I prepare them? It seems like there are three options: Do nothing. Assume they are clean...