So I was able to taste this after 2 weeks.. and maybe its was the quality of my vanilla beans but man oh man.. vanilla in the nose.. not "vanilla" as in vanilla but the earthiness you get from the bean.. really nice... so in actuality your right I didn't get "vanilla" but I got vanilla...
Im also going to try grapefruit in my wheat recipe this time around.. Do you steep the pulp? Or rinds? I want grapefruit in the nose and the flavor... I would think the rinds in the secondary would add to the nose and the steeping would cover the flavor profile..
I'm sure I'll be slammed for this... but I didn't soak my beans before adding to primary.. :o I also didn't split them.. They were in a sealed "Cigar tube" style vessel and were of the highest quality Vanilla. Anyone do this before? any possible infections i should prepare for? They were...
Love me Some Guinness... and have given many of blank looks when people ask "How do you drink that?" or "Isnt that too thick to enjoy?"... my favorite is "it fills me up, I cant drink it" from a person who has two b-lites and calls it a night.. LOL... I go by this rule.. If a person has to ask...
I feel ya.. I used a pint of my Chocolate Oatmeal Stout in a chilli once... it was the best chilli i made... Some people concentrate on the individual flavors they cant pin point instead of how it the whole recipe tastes.
Amatures.. keep using that beer...
:confused:I love my Corona... with a nice low speed Drill hooked a nut.. this makes it very easy. I also get rediculous efficiency :ban: but am too on the cusp of suck sparges every batch. :cross:
I only hand cranked, my adjunct grains .5# 1# max using human crankage.... get a drill! :onestar...