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thanks! I forgot the recepie!! :drunk: 15 L in the fermenter ( less than 4 gal) Pale malt 2,5 Kg Pilsner malt 0,5kg roast barley 0,350kg chocolate malt 0,2kg black malt 0,2kg carapils 0,2 kg flaked barley 0,2kg cacao powder 0,15kg mash at 68°C for 60 minuts and mash out at 78°C for 15 min...

Ok lets try again :D

I'm very proud of it! It tastes great! It's like Young's double chocolate stout!:mug: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VDeHTqiNqn4/SXzNGcQZwwI/AAAAAAAAAMk/ITouGe8XaaQ/s1600-h/Chocolate.jpg

I've heard the james's interview this morning and red the pdf file... i think it's great!

Very good !! ;-)

wonderful :mug:

time for dry hopping :mug: the first one on the left has no dry hop..

my fermenting beer...beautiful...:mug: http://h1.ripway.com/hellfireSam/P1010164.jpg

I hope so, thanks :D

I was concerned about tha base malt. For this beer I've used only pilsner malt with a little amount ( 250g ) of aromatic malt. I've brewed a lot of extract beers but no-one smelt like that at the end of fermentation... is common this difference between the two processes? or it's just...

Hi! 3 weeks ago I've brewed my first all-grain:tank: today It's time to put the beer into bottles but when I opened my secondary something shoked me... my beer smells like mead:drunk: what the hell happened? maybe oxydation?:confused: or maybe is a characteristic of "wyest belgian strong ale"...

fantastic!! I've used glass only for very long secondary fermentations and I've never seen something like that :drunk:

thanks for the translations ;)

I've used 3 kind of honey...but It's quite difficult to translate in english :fro: for 6 liters I've used: 2kg "millefiori" honey 0,5 kg " fiori d'arancia" honey 0,5 kg "sulla" honey "Millefiori" means letterally " thousand of flower" "fiori d'arancia" it's " orange flower" but...

It works perfectly! You can calibrate the distance so you can choose the size of the mill... for the E+G process it's the most economic choise... anyway this is the result: http://bp0.blogger.com/_VDeHTqiNqn4/SFFuZ6daCcI/AAAAAAAAAEw/LNc5htRfMIY/s1600-h/P1.jpg chocolate and cara-pils grain...