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black roasted barley @ 3-4% works nicely with a stout :mug:

lets do the time warp again... just standing up i sound like pop-rocks in soda

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Yeah, my last batch came in at about 25 IBU’s… IBU’s?!@ - for the “13B Sweet Stout” style in BeerTools Pro it seems you can add a sh$# load of hops. This batch was brewed 11/24/2012 and I just pulled a taste now – smell is no hop but the bittering is still there (3oz @ 60min and 2oz@30min). It...

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Well I can say that I do like black roasted barley in my stouts; Your chocolate malt looks good but your IBU’s are pretty high imo. For a 10gal batch I shoot for 20 or less and bump my lactose to 2lbs for a sweet stout (note: that would be 1lb for a 5gal). Only other thing is I’d watch out for...

I put mine in at 15 min to dissolve; some put it in at 60 min. My question is, if you just poured it into your secondary, how did you get it to dissolve and avoid clumping? I don’t think you ruined it, you just did something different. You could always change the name…

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Umm… not from my experience. Give it time, some residual sugar and it’ll blow up faster than… “yup, your joke here” Time ≈ 2-100 days …yes, also dependent on a lot of other factors: yeast, yeast stress, yeast strain, residual yeast, temp, residual fermentable sugar, moon cycle, luck and...

Force carb it at 15 – 20 psi cold for 2 days; check the beer and reduce or continue. It also really depends on your beer style, serving line length and temperature. That would be great if we could just keg, hook up the co2 and serve; but nature does not allow – damn nature… always making me...

Hmm.. cider background, looking for a fruit type beer; have you considered making Graff? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/graff-malty-slightly-hopped-cider-117117/ Lots of people start out with Mr Beer and lots of people here still use them for one gallon test batches. $20-30 for 2gal of...

Warm 2L soda bottles seem to hold a lot of pressure when first opened (even after shaking for a few seconds… because I like my soda still and gf w/a wet t-shirt!) A busted PET bottle with cider everywhere is a LOT better than a busted glass bottle with cider and glass everywhere. But, the PET...

I’m not sure about the sizes but maybe you could fit a mini (2gal) keg inside it and figure out how to serve it that way… with the spigot that’s already there? With some room to spare you could also fill with dry ice to keep the 2gal cold? I’m so fascinated by these odd ‘capsules’ and, one day...