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Up to now I have mostly used dry yeast without a starter and it has worked fine. I am branching out into washing my yeast so I can move into liquid yeast without adding too much cost. Most of the beers I will be making for the next few months are going to be dry beers with an OG around 1.040...

I have been looking for something like that too so I can move inside during the winter. I am looking at putting a pot on the stove and then plug in a 2200 watt over the edge heating element. It looks like it works on any pot without drilling holes or anything and would add enough heat to my...

I did extract brews for about a year before making the change to AG and during that time the biggest improvement I saw was going from 2.5 gallon boils to 5 gallon boils. Now that I do 6 gallon boils for AG, any extracts that I do I will start with 6 gallon and boil down to 5 gallons over the 60...

I have not done this post boil, but I can tell you that .75oz of sweet orange peel and .75 oz coriander with a little bitter orange (.25-.4oz) in the last 5 minutes of the boil will get you the orange flavor that you are looking for. You might boil some sweet orange and coriander for 5 minutes...

The Cocoa Powder & Lactose are ok. I had those & chocolate extract in mine and the head was great.

That is interesting timing. I brewed my 2nd attempt at a great chocolate stout last night. The one thing that stands out to me is the bittersweet chocolate. It may have oil in it. The cocoa powder I assume is like an 8oz container of pure cocoa from Hersey's. If the Bittersweet Chocolate...