Recent content by wanderlust

I'm glad you figured it out, because I don't have many notes from this brew day. I probably just winged it and added mash/sparge water until it seemed "just right". If you haven't added coffee to beer before, be careful with your addition. I tried to add a little at a time until it tasted "just...

I transferred it to secondary last night with a FG of 1.022. A little higher than I would have liked, but it makes sense since I mashed it at 156. I'll probably drop it to 152-154 next time to try to get a few more more fermentables out. The front of the tongue flavor is currently a little...

I just brewed on Saturday, so the beer is still in primary. Recently I have been collecting yeast from my beers to save money, so I leave it in primary for about 4 days, then swap to secondary fro 2 weeks. My plan is to cold brew coffee and add it at bottling, because I need to bottle a few...

Of course we will have the pole. :) We've had it prominently displayed in the house after Thanksgiving for the past 3 years. No tinsel though, I find tinsel very distracting. Hopefully their are no grievances to air over the taste of this beer.

I brewed this up as is, except that I dropped the lactose from 1lb to 0.5 lbs. The wort tasted phenomenal, so I hope it translates into what I want. OG was 1.067 which was about 74% efficiency. It is currently bubbling away in the closet at 68 degrees.

Hey all. I am planning on brewing a Milk stout with a chocolate malt base flavored (but no real chocolate) with cold brewed coffee for my upcoming Festivus celebration. I've never made a milk stout before, so I wanted to post the recipe for comments: Mash (planned at 156 degrees): 9.00 lb...