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Hi, I'm looking for a good chocolate stout recipe. I've seen several, including McAustin's, and several of them have a variation on "Special Dark Cocoa" in the ingredients list. Does this mean use the Hershey's candy bars, or some sort of dry cocoa powder, or some wild brewing product that I...

I have now brewed 4 Mr. Beers and 4 5-gallon batches. I think I have my process down so I don't feel like a total klutz while brewing. And, the beers have all turned out pretty good. My big batches have all been extract kits assembled by my LHBS. I think I am ready to start experimenting with...

I've been fermenting an oatmeal stout for 3 weeks in my only primary. I got the brewing itch on Friday, so I racked it to a 5 gal. better bottle to free up my primary, figuring it could sit in the secondary for a few days until I had time to bottle it. I noticed an awful lot of sediment as I...

Hello, new brewer here, lots of great info on this site. However, I have not been able to find a nice summary on converting a refrigerator to a fermenter. If one exists, I apologize for the extraneous post-- could you point me to it? If not, here are some questions I have: How big should the...

Got a Mr. Beer for my birthday 3 months ago, got a starter 5 gallon kit 2 months ago, added an immersion chiller and other fun stuff 1 month ago, have run 3 or 4 batches through each setup, and am currently building a shed in my backyard to house a refrigerator for use as a fermenter (no garage...