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Sure thing. :) Standard yeast nutrient carries stuff like Thiamin and Biotin that help with cell growth, with magnesium and zinc to aid with cell count and metabolism. This stuff is standard in most yeast nutrients sold by pretty much everyone to some degree (some brands ratios are different)...

I will say I have used the Homebrew Cherry Soda extract. Be warned, it is Cherry soda not Cherry Cola. It has a slight medicinal taste to it, like cherry robitussin but without the alcohol. Most everyone who has been drinking off of the Homebrew Cherry Soda extract has really hated it. I have...

Well, OG is 1.045 so not quite 1.051 but is fermenting nicely. ;)

The coconut sugar has similar if not exactly the same nutrients as many yeast nutrient packs like Wyeast and so on. So extra abv and nutrients for your yeast. Other sugar usually is just to bump of the ABV, which you can do if you want the beer to be a little stronger.

I have brewed a multi-award winning barelywine at 26.6% and I can tell you that grain-wise max out what you can do and DME and Sugars for the rest. From maple syrup to coconut and turbinado sugar, you can easily get the gravity you need, but ultimately you may not get it initially from the...

You are on the right track. Maris Otter base malt is great, fuggles is great as is East Kent Goldings if you want something else, challenger is fine. I think the concern is the amount of Darkness you have going on. If you want something very bitter with nothing to offset it (like lactose for a...

Yeah, I would start small too and the stewed fruit flavors is a thing both positive and negative depending on what you're doing and especially what fruit you're using. You also need to consider if you want some of the fruit to ferment with your beer, again, if that's what you want. From the...

I forgot to add that it would be a good idea to use gelatin to help clarify to prevent haziness a few days before kegging and be weary how long you keep the fruit in secondary so you dont get a fruit wine finish.

Regarding the breweries that do and don't do it that is all about anecdotal exposure so that is a fair enough point, I was just expressing that they used to only do it in secondary (I should have made that more clear) and their fruit beers didn't do well. When they started doing it in the boil...

Ok. Then leave the 2-row in. 2 to 3 days dry hopped should be good. :)

Yes and no. There is a strong reason why most microbreweries do this and it very much depends on the amount of fruit you're using, what kind of fruit, and when in the boil you're using it. 10 minutes or flame out is when I do it and if I flame out I let it sit till I transfer it into the carboy...

When I made the Passionately Wet Dragon's Snatch (Dragonfruit, Passionfruit, Watermelon, and Prickly Pear fruit beer) I honestly added fruit to the boil, then I added the fruit again in secondary. Beer won 1st place in specialty beer at a brew festival in San Diego some years back. But with...

I agree with Sammy on a lot of it. But perhaps just use MO instead of 2-row in general. S-04 or Nottingham should be perfect for dry yeasts for sure and his suggestion on WLP 090 is probably spot on but if you don't want to do the starter go with S-04 or Nottingham. Stupid question but for the...

Ok, the beer has been brewed. Only negative so far is the og is 1.059 and that is because I didn't have any coconut sugar on me, I forgot to order it and decided to just go on without it. So no worries, I didn't add the chocolate or yeast in the boil. The question now becomes how much nibs to...

King Harbor Brewing is still around for sure and the new hot spot bottle shop in Redondo/Torrance is Select Beer. They even had a Pliney the Younger event a year or so ago. Not much has changed except Torrance getting about 16 breweries, only 2 or 3 of them are even worth a damn. Placentia, CA...

Yeah, a brewery and winery tour of California. Many go, few survive! GHAHAHAHA! But if you're in the area again, check out Yorkshire Square in Torrance. They do "ye olde" pull taps (not realy ye olde, just british style) ales and lagers. It's all barrel conditioned and barrel carbonated (except...

Really, with the cocoa nibs, I just want to get them down to a more manageable setting as I weighed my package of them (that I got for free from a going out of business brewery) and it weighed in at 7lbs 5oz ish. I have 46 ounces of homemade vanilla extract so I just figure add it in the boil...

Yeah, Najas was the stop for me right at King Harbor Pier near Quality Seafood and the Arcade (which is gone now). Najas always had Pliney and some good Firestone exclusive stouts. A lot of the bottle shops are carrying the nicer stuff now, but when I can brew it myself, I find it 10x cheaper on...

Yeah, I really just want to isolate this hop, knock it up a bit more then I would in general use, and try to fully take on it's flavor to get a better understanding of it's flavor profile.

That was kinda what I meant. XD But yeah, BP is the Prinz of pop as opposed to MJ being the king of pop. XD