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Okay, so I started brewing the stout yesterday. I have decided to add the cherries to the secondary along with the cocoa nibs. I will be sanitizing the cocoa nibs by soaking them in vodka while I'm waiting for fermentation to take place. I am wondering if it would be okay to sanitize the...

I think I will wait to add the cherries in the secondary with the cocoa nibs. So could I sanitize the cherries by soaking them in vodka with the cocoa nibs?

So I'm planning do so a chocolate cherry stout this weekend and I have a few questions. The recipe I'm using calls for adding the cherries to the primary and the chocolate nibs to the secondary. Do I add the cherries at the end of the boil or after it is cooled and in the primary? If I add them...

So I'm planning to so a chocolate cherry stout this weekend and I have a few questions. The recipe I'm using calls for adding the cherries to the primary and the chocolate nibs to the secondary. Do I add the cherries at the end of the boil or after it is cooled and in the primary? If I add...

Oops! Sorry about that. So it's okay if there is some yeast floating around. My gravity was 1.010.

I'm on my second batch of beer and I have a question about the fermentation. It's an all grain Abbey Triple and after sitting in the primary for 11 days it appears to be done fermenting. When I lifted the lid from my bucket most if the klausen had sunk to the bottom but there were a few...

I like Hopville as well but I wish there was a way to scale down the recipe as I like to do small batches.

Hey Isabellajames, I too did some brewing some 15 or 16 years ago when all I could get my hands on was inferior ingredients and with little knowledge. I also just got the itch to brew again and started an Abbey ale last Friday. I found this forum just a few days ago and I agree it is a wealth...

Would like to do a one gallon test batch and I am wondering if I can do 1gallon batch in a 5 gallon fermenter? Will the excess headspace effect the process?

Well thanks for your replies, I feel much better now about my first batch. I was afraid I was going to have to give it all away to my hop loving friends.

Hello fellow brewers. I am new to brewing and this forum. I brewed my first batch of home-brew yesterday, it's an abbey ale. I tasted a small sample of it before it went into the fermenter. It seemed really hoppy. My question is, does the taste change much from the time it goes into the...