I've just racked my imperial stout (9.5%, was shooting for higher but we don't always get the efficiency we want right?) to secondary and plan on adding cacao nibs to it. I've seen a lot of posts about two options for sanitizing cacao nibs: 1) baking them and 2) soaking them in vodka.
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I'm a couple of batches into all-grain brewing and while most everything's gone fairly well I have some suspicions about the accuracy of the mash tun's screw-in / twist-in dial thermometer I use versus a digital thermometers or a standard glass thermometer placed in the mash. The dial...
I feel you on the "new setup questionable results blues". Got my third stainless steel pot the other day and was all hyped to try my first all-grain recipe. While most of it went well, I had a similar experience with the mash temperature starting to drop. I tried wrapping the mash tun in...