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Just cracked open a stout which was bottled 6 days ago, and it's stellar (I opened one at 3 days and it was pretty flat). Last batch I opened one in 7 days, and it was done. Every batch I've ever done (I think, or at least close to it) I've opened around a week after bottling and they're finished.

+ 5 of a very cinnamon'y, nutmegg'y, chocolat'y Christmas stout. Yumyum 32739.5 + 5 = 32744.5

It's strange, but I seem to get much more drunk on homebrew than store brought stuff. Congrats on your first brew!

So, just incase anyone else has the same issue and bumps into this thread: Nilo and I discussed over PM, and it seems that if you take the lactose out of the recipe, the instructions which come with the AHS Left Hand Milk Stout make sense - the OG and FG match. However if you add a pound of...

AHS christmas stout +5 = 31666

"In my haste, I brewed my batch not realizing I won't be in town in 7 days to transfer to my secondary. Will leaving the beer in the primary for an extra day or two have a major effect on it?" I always leave mine in primary for a month, and don't use a secondary. You'll probably hear that a...

Their instructions call for a FG of 1.018, which seems low (my last stout barely hit that, without the lactose).

From what I can tell even a lb of lactose shouldn't push the FG up that much - I think in style is low 020s, not 30s.

Austin homebrew left hand milk stout: 7lb amber, 3/4 lb munich, 1lb lactose. From my beer diary: Brewed sept 1st, OG 1.64 pitched 2 packs safeale 05 additions: irish moss, yeast fuel. Fermented mid 60s Sept 29 reading - 1.030 Gave it a stir, added another pack of 05 3...

My first 2 beers...didnt temp control during fermentation, both ended up around 1.022, stayed same for a few days, decided to bottle, both were massively overcarbed. Think the fermentation took the temp so high that it shocked the yeast, and they dropped out of suspension. Either that or i...

I like the coconut, it's not outstanding in any way, but a solid example of it's style with a nice hint of coconut in there. Remember thinking it was a tad overpriced, but picked it up at Wholefoods where you can say that about pretty much any item in there.

I left mine in for 4 weeks, and was really happy with it.

Only 7 brews in, but even the most vigorous fermentation hasn't got close to filling the headspace in my brewing bucket. About to try a AHS cascadian dark kit, adding 2 alcohol boost packs, yeast fuel, then pitching 2 packs of US-05 -- will I need to swap out to a blowoff setup, or are...

+ 5 gallons AHS left hand milk stout = 27503.5

Amazing recipe, just started drinking a batch. Would strongly suggest upping the cocoa powder a bit. I doubled it, would triple it next time.

My first Stout flopped (over carbed in the bottle), but I do love stouts, so I went with Austin homebrew's double chocolate stout, doubled the chocolate addition, and it's amazing. So if you like stouts (which it seems like you do), I would suggest that. Looks like your early brews (like mine)...

For what its worth - my 2nd brew was a coffee vanilla stout (extract), month in primary, started about 1.050 ended at 1.020, bottled it up, month later it was very foamy (think I overprimed) - anyway, I think it's an ok beer and the last thing I would call it is watery, however the wife refuses...

Austin homebrew double chocolate stout - 5 weeks in primary, only a week in bottle (I know, couldn't help myself) and a few days in the fridge... stands up against nearly every stout I've had, really really impressed.

I don't bother taking labels off - don't see the point. Good habit to get into is giving all bottles a quick hot water clean right after you pour the beer into a glass, makes cleaning at bottling time much easier. For sanitizing, I have a spray bottle with starsan which I spray liberally into...

Have only done one coffee beer - moved a stout to secondary for 2 days and racked on top of 2.5 cups of brewed and then cooled coffee (used a french press, however you get superior coffee from cold brewing if you have time to do it). Opened this batch a couple of days ago, so no idea how long...