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I made a "toffee" chocolate stout last night, and ran into something I haven't seen yet while brewing. First off, I'll detail what was in the pot. 1.8kg Muntons Irish Style Stout 1.0kg light DME (half of which was initially boiled in a small volume of water to carmalize) 0.25kg chocolate...

So my birthday is coming up in a month and a half, and I've been off the kettle for a good three months now. Figured now would be a good time to jump back in and make a tasty brew. I'm looking for some advice on a beer, probably mostly extract based. I have dreams of smooth toffee flavours, and...

Hello everyone, I've decided to take on a bit of a length project. I want to brew a barleywine this christmas and then store it until next christmas as a gift. I don't want to take on such a project and then make a mistake ruining months of work so I am going to lay out what I am doing and...

When I first started homebrewing I had a dream. The dream evolved from a book I had called "Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants". Being originally from a small town mid-ontario I had a lot of exposure to bushcraft. The idea of making a beer from purely Canadian wild ingredients was fascinating...

I'm not a big fan of the online market, as everywhere I have lived has had a small homebrew warehouse of some kind. The problem I have run into, however, is that all of these local places now stock purely plastic bottles. While some people seem to love them I personally love the presentation of...

I thought I would go wild and make a stout by the loosest definitions. I'm not sure what I ended up with, and I was wondering if anyone could help me define the style. It tastes very sweet, with only a slightly coffee-ish aftertaste. It's good though, I just don't know what to call it. It's not...

I brewed a sweet chocolate stout, and it's been in the primary for about a week and a day. I used 1.5kg of coopers dark extra, 1.2kg of some pale ale extract whose brand I cannot remember, 1cup of brown sugar, 3oz of bakers chocolate, 1lbs of chocolate malt, 1lbs of crystal malt, and half cup of...

I know there is a beer cocktail called black velvet, which is guiness and white wine. But I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of incorperating grape juice directly into the brewpot while making a stout.