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I havnt, but i use oak in my pumpkin ale and have had good results. I cant remember which is which but if you were wanting to add oak add the one that gives vanilla

I didnt have any krausen on mine. Towards the end the beer looks pretty dormant and all the cocao powder has settled to the bottom and stuck to the sides. I would give it another week or if you got the space i would stick the carboy in the fridge and cold crash it to shut down the yeast. My...

I keg mine. I just strapped the keg on @ 10psi for about a week before i poured my first draft. Due to the lactose and creamy style head i wouldnt carb it too much else your going to have alot of foam. 2.4 sounds good

The carboy should be very mucky due to the yeast and cocoa powder this is normal. The beer will clear itself right up

Stick them all in, flavors fade over time. Like I said above its not a sweet chocolate so you won't run into something that is too sweet to drink

Let us know how it goes. The roasted barley will darken it up to almost a black srm. The first batch I made with chocolate malt was prettt black but I used pale chocolate malt this time for something different. Either way I would still classify it as a sweet stout more than a porter.

I would say the cocoa power doesn't add for much because it's unsweetened. The mouthful is pretty creamy from the lactose. Lactose adds a couple points but not a ton

Did you add the cocoa powder as well? I found mine to have a ton of chocolate flavor. It wasn't sweetness but pure cocoa flavor

I got about 20 of the pumpkin ales. Trying to collect them. Fort Gary happy jack pumpkin is by far the best I've had

I didn't do anything with the nibs, I bought my nibs from my local store that were vacuum sealed. You could always put them in a little container and cover them with some vodka and leave it for a few days and then add the mixture. I would prefer adding them once fermentation has completed...

That's due to me using pale chocolate malt. If you use chocolate malt the beer is more of a black than brown. You could add some roasted barley to completely darken it up

No problem, report back on how it goes!

Nope, I didn't find the beer sweet at all. 1# of lactose isn't that much. I've used .75 in some fruit beers. I've brewed this beer a fee times and this will probably be the end of the changes. The first time I didn't add cocoa powder to the boil and as stated above this time I used pale...

Sipping on one now. The chocolate flavor is a nice cocoa flavor like solid chocolate, and it's not overly sweet. I didn't want my stout to be pure black so I added pale chocolate malt on this batch lightening the color

Glad your enjoying it! If anyone has brewed it lemme know how your results were

I brewed this a few times now, and have been very happy with the recipe. It is definitely better than any store bought chocolate stouts I have had. I find with store bough recipes the chocolate taste is very minimal and you just end up with stout. I've taken a couple recipes and came out with...

I wouldn't use more than .5lb of honey, most of the flavor comes from the honey malt and you dont want to dry out your beer. I would recommend it, it's a very nice beer. It's got a lot more flavor than sleemans has due to them converting their recipe to a thin lager. If you end up making this...

I finally had Well's Banana Bread Beer and I thought it was really good and im interested in a clone. I'm going to build a recipe in the next week hopefully for a clone based on some of the comments in this thread and my knowledge from wells and tasting. I read the back of the bottle for...

Anyone who kegs will tell you it'd the best. Personally for me I bought a kegerator when they went on sale at Costco for 399$ and that comes with a co2. You just need to buy your ball lock kegs after For me I HATED bottling as well. What I did do before I was to kegging was I started bottling...

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