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Did you end up making this? I just tasted this beer for the first time tonight. It's awesome. Would love to make it, so please do update and let us know how it turned out.

I prefer more flavorful, often sweeter stouts over stand-alones. Milk stouts and chocolate stouts are more my style. A friend of mine prefers really serious stouts and he likes "Oatmeal Breakfast" stouts. Goose Island also makes a pretty serious Bourbon County porter you might want to try...

There are a million possibilities. Presumably you've already considered most of the obvious ones. The fact that only half your bottles were infected doesn't really prove or rule out anything, way too many variables. It's possible they didn't thoroughly dry (this is always a problem for me)...

For an "apples to apples" comparison you have to look not at the amount (weight/mass) of the wood but at the ratio of surface area to volume. Some good information about this has actually been done on the moonshine/distillation forums (not that I have any firsthand experience with that dark...

I realize these aren't answering your question, but here is another lactose-free idea. I discovered by accident that there are (at least) three ways to get a sweet final product: 1. Use non-fermentable sugar 2. Kill the yeast 3. Let the yeast kill themselves You are familiar with option...

I don't think it's 100% accurate to say that it isn't beer if it doesn't have hops. In the middle ages, English law distinguished "beers" and "ales" on the basis of hops. It was illegal to make ale with hops, and in fact for a long time it was illegal for a single brewer to make both ales and...