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So I made a mistake. I forgot to get my Crystal 40 while at the store today. They're closed now. I already smacked the 2 packets of 1056 that I got. It says to let them swell for 3 hours. I don't plan on brewing now that I missed that ingredient. What should I do with this yeast? I don't have...

Hi all. I haven't brewed too much but I can't pass up this opportunity and I'd really like to try this. In a couple of days I should be picking up 1 or 2 barrels that Goose Island just emptied of 2011 Bourbon County Stout. They're Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. They're unrinsed. They removed...

I'm a little confused by this recipe when it comes to the amount of water to be used. It says steep the Crystal 40 in 1.5 gallons of water. At what point does this become a 5 gallon batch? Can I steep at 2 gallons, then add 3 gallons of water as I bring it to a boil? The original recipe...

Awesome! Thank you very much for the advice on the lactose. Can't wait to try it. I'm gonna play around with this one a bit and see what I can do to make it as close to an alcoholic chocolate milk as I can.

Thank you. Captain Bigelow, is there a lot of coffee flavor to this? I'm thinking I might want to increase the the crystal 40 and the chocolate malt by 8oz each and remove the roasted barley. I'm looking for all chocolate, no coffee flavor. Also considering making it a milk stout if I do that...

I'm a n00b so sorry if this seems obvious to you. Do you add both the vodka and mint leaves to the secondary? Or do you strain the leaves away from the vodka and only add the leaves? I don't think I'd want the vodka in my beer, but I would think it would absorb a lot of the mint properties.