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Okay. I skimmed through the rest of the thread and I saw the change to tea bags and lower amount of cocoa powder. I'm not a huge expert at recipe building but it looks like the amounts are right on. Cheesecake will confirm that. If your doing a BIAB you leave out the rice hulls, they are...

Are you planning to Brew In A Bag this recipe? Also, curious why you're going with Peppermint Tea bags and not the extract at bottling?

I never use a hop bag. I used to rack from my brew kettle into carboy but with the 1-gallon batches I've been pouring the whole kettle into the bucket.

Thanks for the information about mashing. I was thinking of mashing at 154 since a sweeter stout might compliment the chocolate. I'll try the 150-152 range and see how it turns out. The cold steeping seems easy enough, I was concerned about not boiling the water/coffee before bottling. Have...

NEVER! Is there really a brewing too much problem? I find if I don't brew at least once a week I think I'm not brewing enough. Of course, the 1 gallon brews helps keep the time and space issues in check:mug:

+1 I measure out 3 to 4 grams and put in a sandwich bag inside the butter door. Crap...let me clarify. After I measure out the amount I need, I fold the foil package then place in a plastic sandwich bag. Squeeze as much of the air out and then put it in the refrigerator butter drawer. Doesn't...

Here's link to some ideas about splitting liquid yeast. Currently, I've been using dry yeast but when I need to use a liquid yeast I may get a White Labs. I think it would be easier to split the White Labs since its already in reusable container. IMHO...

C-Rider: It looks like a great recipe. A couple of questions: 1. What temperature did you mash? 2. How did you cold steep the coffee for bottling? I'll have to try find a decent substitute for the Kona coffee. We can get Kona coffee here in Iowa but I'm not sure its as good as what you can...

I'm having a tough time deciding what to brew next....what to do? What to do? Thought of brewing a stout, then I thought I could add coconut to it. Now my head is spinning with possibilities.

I think I understand your question about 1 gallon recipes. Any proven recipe can be an 1 gallon batch, I've been taking larger recipes and down sizing them for a couple of years now. A 5 gallon recipe can be divided by 2 for 2.5 gallons or by 4 for 1.25 gallons. The ingredients will just be...

I did a quick unscientific test tonight. I set my oven at its lowest setting which is 170 and placed a pot with hot tap water for 30 minutes. I checked the water before placing in the oven and after and I didn't find much change in temperature...ie 130 degrees. :ban: Then I left the pot out of...

Not 100% sure on this but I believe UPS and FedEX automatically insure up the first $100 of value. If you declare a higher $ value they will include additional coverage in the shipping price.

I may go this route as well. When I do 2.5 gallon batches, the 3 gallons of mash water and 5 lbs of grain would keep a steady temperature. I'm having trouble maintain mash temps with just 1.5 gallons of water and 2 lbs of grain. My last batch, I lost 8 degrees even though I put around insulation...

I agree. A good brewing software can make life easier. I use Promash, I bought it years ago before I was aware of any other systems. It work well for what I like to do. I can scale recipes, it tells me my mash volume, strike water temps and lastly the amount of total water I will need. I mostly...

With my experience racking my 1 gallon batch of beer last night and others mentioning auto siphons, I decided a search for mini auto siphons. Now, I know a couple of online HBS have smaller versions of auto siphons in stock but I wanted to pass along this link for FlyGuy's T-siphon. I thought is...

I wanted to free up my 3-gallon carboy so I decided to transfer my Holiday Beer after 10 days. Haven't done a secondary in a long time. I need to get some smaller Racking Canes because I had a hard keeping the siphon going between bottles. Huge PITA but I got it done. I guess we'll see how it...

Decided to transfer my Holiday Beer from Primary to Secondary

I do something similar Squeeze the life out of the grains.

I was trying to brew a Blue Moon Clone from some ideas floating around here on HomeBrewTalk. I finally decided to up my game and add some pictures. I hit the mash temperature of 157 degrees...YEAH! My insulated lid floating on the grains. More insulation around the pot/mash tun...