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I made a smoked peach and apricot sour last year that turned out great

Thanks--I'll keep an eye out on deals for All-clad or one of the $100 brands you mentioned

Any particular brand/model you'd recommend?

That's really odd--I made a RIS with it a couple of months ago with similar OG/FG as you and had no problems even with added lactose. I didn't cold crash, but I made a large starter. I'm happy enough with it that I'll use it again. I'm guessing you just used one pack of it?

They're both really good, but like what's been said, they don't stand head and shoulders above a lot of other breweries. I go up to Massachusetts once and year and if you ever get a chance to do the TH experience, it's pretty fun as long as it's not freezing. The good thing about having great...

I've never used it except in the last 10-15 minutes of the boil--so when you add it post fermentation it's thicker and sweeter or did just the amount you added do that?

Looks great! Why did you choose to add the lactose at kegging instead of late in the boil?

I did a Xocoveza a few weeks ago with Darkness and was generally happy with it--I wish it had ended up a bit lower in gravity, but I'm chalking it up to the lactose I have in there (1.104-1.031)

I have some glucoa I got some glucoamylase for my current batch in case I had a stuck fermentation I can try. I might try throwing in some dry yeast along with the kveik to help cover my bases. I'm shooting for a bigger OG for the next one to make a big ol' raspberry imperial milk stout.

The stout I'm getting ready to bottle started a bit north of 1.100 so I might be pushing it with that. Maybe I'll see how a 100% kveik fermentation turns out.

I was joking because of the violent fermentation I've gotten with the kveik I've used, but good to know for sure

Maybe I'll copitch with Kviek and make a Brut Imperial Stout :)

I have a batch of imperial stout that I'll be bottling this weekend and would like to turn around and make another batch in the next week or two. I used Imperial's The Darkness and would like to just add the next batch on top of it. Would this be advisable? I can also pitch US-04/05/Kviek if...

I think I gave it about 3 weeks before I racked it

I racked off to secondary to reclaim my fermenter. I also didn't want to worry about autolysis.