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I received a request from @InspectorJon in a different thread to post what I'm doing in this forum to see if we can put our minds together and come up with a decent Abraxas clone. Basically I brewed a slightly modified version of Perennial's Fantastic Voyage recipe that Perennial owner Phil...

I've got a big, roasty imperial stout in my fermenter at the moment. I used Perennial's Fantastic Voyage recipe (minus the coconut) and the OG is 1.118. I want to go for more of an Abraxas flavor. I intend to add most of a bottle of Cholaca liquid cacao, 2 oz of dried ancho chilies and some...

I've got a few stouts under my belt and I want to take a run at a big imperial stout. The recipe I want to use calls for almost 23 pounds of grain and a three-hour boil to make a 5-gallon batch. I plugged everything in to BeerSmith and it says I will need nearly 12 gallons of water for the mash...

Hi, I'm going to try to somewhat control the temperature of my fermentation for the first time by putting my Anvil stainless steel bucket fermenter in a water bath in a plastic keg bucket. I'm concerned about sanitation, especially since the fermenter has a ball valve spigot that I will need to...

I've got an imperial chocolate stout in my fermenter. OG was 1.078 and I'm hoping to get it down to 1.016 or so. I oxygenated for 60 seconds before pitching four packs of WLP007 at 68 degrees at 4 pm Sunday, fermentation began by 10 pm. I kept the ambient temp at 62-63 and the fermometer read...

Hello, my name is Matt and I live in Minneapolis. I've been a lurker for a while and have used this forum for a ton of research, so I figured I should probably join the conversations at some point. I'm pretty new to homebrewing. I have my third-ever batch glugging away in the fermenter as I...

I've got an imperial chocolate stout in my fermenter and I'd love to bottle it in style. I'm really enamored with the distinctive shape of Samuel Smith's 355 ML bottles, and I'm wondering if it's possible to buy similar bottles anywhere. Of course I'm saving all the ones I drink but it's taking...