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Ok so update: the carboy is now bubbling away with the coffee stout sitting under the layer of thick chocolate the Oreo powder made. Seems we may have woke the yeast for another round?! Will take the final gravity in 2 weeks or whenever things calm. We shall see. But I was surprised to see...

No turning back now. 1 cup sifted oreo powder in secondary (reused primary carboy vs. using secondary) and separated the batch. Bottle the initial batch and give another 2 weeks for oreo carboy to setup. We shall see!

I currently have my coffee stout at 2 weeks now in the fermenter. I have an Oreo 'gingerbread' house that I crushed up after Christmas. I wanna split the batch, put some amount of the goodness directly into the secondary for another two weeks. What can go wrong? Bad idea or delicious effort?

Sounds and looks delicious. Do you recall how you treat the cherries exactly? I'm new to brewing and especially with fruit additions and interested in that process more for this. Thanks

I see the context now. I was looking at the instructions during the boil and with the timing of additions I was assuming that step of heat sanitizing was less about sanitizing of the wort chiller and more about the timing of it and it's impact on beer taste. I think while concentrating on the...

I think I see now... boil the wort chiller in wort?

Ok so this was what the recipe called for. Attached is the snipper from the fresh Squeezed recipe from northern brewer. 'put malt in the wort with 15m remaining then heat sanitize using the wort chiller, then... Add hops at the end...'. I didn't do this step as I wasn't all that prepared to...

Do you remove the orange peel before fermentation or leave them all in?

In the priming sugar mix I added hickory wood briefly after the boil, letting them soak for a few minutes until light boil. Not sure this was a good idea but like the idea of Hickory Amber. Maybe next time I'll secondary and soak them but for now I'm just hoping it didn't introduce something...

I am pretty new to brewing, and had only brewed with my friend who had many more batches under his belt. That said, we planned a NEIPA kit and my reading confirmed what you all know, water quality matters most for certain beers, this being one of them. I urged him to splurge on a large Costco...