I just bought a keg king fridge from morebeer after my old one broke. It's the 3 faucet version. Best thing about is that it holds 3 kegs and the co2 bottle inside. It has a fan and a digital temp controller. Huge upgrade to the old one. The faucets are same style as perlick so they don't...
I actually reconfigured this entire recipie and it came out much closer.
12# pils dingmans
12# pale crisp
1# pale chocolate
.4oz carafa 3 special
2oz EKG@ 60
WLP500
6oz cocoa nibs
6oz coffee beans
Then I did 6oz of a local specialty hot chocolate flavored whole bean coffee. I think for...
One of my most popular recipies with guests is a nut Brown ale.
9ib Marris otter
4oz brown
4oz 120
4oz chocolate
4oz victory
4oz honey malt
Willamette
Wlp001
I use 4 to 8 oz of nibs per 5g. I've added the straight into the secondary out of the bag for 5-7 days @ 75deg. I've also added them bagged straight into the keg for 4 days @ 36deg. Super easy to do in the keg, probably gonna stick to that if I can.
You don't need to age an Irish dry stout long, 2-3 weeks tops. I did a guiness clone, 2 weeks after kegging I couldn't tell it apart from an actual guiness.
Oh, totally overlooked your yeast selection. Yeah, 05 isn't going to work, only certain yeast will do the transformation. There are about a half dozen yeasts people are using for this style. The one I hear a lot about is imperial juice.
Id drop the temp down to around 195 and whirlpool. Beersmith documentation only says above 85c. First dry hop is 2 days into fermentation at high krausen. 2nd dry hop is 4 days.
I plugged your recipe into Beersmith and this is what i came up with. Of course i changed the hop schedule shooting for 35IBU. Whirlpool hops in version 2.3 of beersmith assumes the temp is 85C+. The hops from the boil are also calculated into the 30 minute whirlpool time. As for the dry hop...
If your just wanting to do a light beer do a SMASH or "brewing on the ones". Learn your base malts or something. This will go a long way in learning how to put a recipie together. I typically never use sugar unless it's a belgian style and usually never more than 10% of the grain bill.
I got 2 cases of bombers from a local sushi place and tipped her 2 bottles of homebrew. Kirin and Sapporo bottles peel easy too.
If you buy beer for the bottles stay away from plastic labels and anything with foil (Leffe). I don't like Amber dosequis either. Guiness (shrink wrapped), New...
I'm assuming the 5ib sugar is honey? I'd use a beer yeast or if your going with a good mead yeast I'd go with pack in 71b. I've never liked champagne yeast, leaves it very dry and flavorless.
Buy a 12" thermowell add another hole to your bucket lid. Fits in just like the airlock. $12 from brewershardware.
https://www.brewershardware.com/12-Stainless-Steel-Thermowell-TWS12.html