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This made one heck of a stout!

Hard to explain exactly what I do, but yes, I greatly enjoy it... http://www.linkedin.com/pub/will-havens/8/498/b28

I think that my batches may have been exposed to oxygen despite my best efforts. I was racking into a tertiary and had dry hopped in the secondary, and some hops got stuck on the intake of the racking cane causing the suction to pull from inside the cane. I slowed the flow by pinching the tube...

After a month in the keg this tasted spot on!

A Peabody Jones vodka martini ... A fella needs a break from beer every so often! Blasphemer!

Yeah, I enjoy roasty flavor a great deal. The roasty flavor tends to mellow with a couple of months of aging from what I have observed.

I'm sure, I tend to go overboard. I did read that someone felt that with the heat treatment I mentioned could lead to diminished flavor akin to preserves.

Update: I brewed this up 2 weekends ago with mixed results. One batch finished about 1.054 and the next 1.082. No worries though! I also added 2/3 of a cup of Dutch cocoa powder at flameout to help balance the sweetness. The small beer was at 1.010 after 5 days but a little green; it is quite...

I guess absent hearing of the use of frozen strawberries I would Vitamix purée those bad boys, then heat to 160 degrees for 6 minutes, cool, then dump into the secondary. That's what I did when I made huckleberry blackberry mead and it turned out bursting with flavor!

You're on the right track. I made the Northern Brewer Mustache Envy Belgian Stout a couple of years back using medium toast French oak soaked with bourbon, it was great. Right now I am working on a 10 gallon Firestone Walker Double DBA Imperial Special Bitter and a 5 gallon Firestone Walker...

I have wondered if this is because lagers have a different flavor, so much different than ales. I have noticed a definite preference to ales since I started home brewing. Partly because I don't have a good setup for brewing lagers, so I just don't brew or drink them.

I still don't get why a guy couldn't just use Saran Wrap or shrinkwrap???

Looks like cocoa powder that just won't get wet...

The same thing happened to me with a dunkelweizen. This will likely turn out to be a refreshing light beer, keep with it! Just in time for spring weather!

And... How about now? Thanks for the assists with this one!

I see with the carafa now...

That's funny because last night I hit an SRM of 60+ in BrewPal but backed the roasted malts out. I guess I missed that detail in my research although I'm sure I must have seen it the first couple of looks at the Firestone Walker site. I will revise later this evening and post the revision. Is...

Okay... How about now... It's more like Russian Imperial though now, 75% pale malt base, 25% roasted malts, then adjusted for 15% oats. Slightly more hops from BC Goldings. The FG seems a little high though...

How about this...

Yeah, it's actually still bubbling away. I had a lot of issues with this and as a result a lot of lessons learned. I actually ended up watering down to 10 gallons. It stuck at 1.040 or so and I pitched 2 massive starters of champagne yeast to finish it off, it's at about 1.030 now. Crazy town...