Here is a link to the recipe I used, it was based on a clone of Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout. I did add about a teaspoon of artificial butter flavoring to the keg, which is not reflected in the recipe. (just added until it had the flavor I was looking for) This stout was very popular with my...
They were pretty hard, so I assume that means they were dried. Like I said, I tend to like in your face flavors, so my preference may be a bit stronger than others. My recipe also had vanilla beans in it, which might have masked some of the cardamom seed.
I recently made a stout with 1 tsp lightly crushed for a 5 gallon batch and I can barely taste it. Flavors have to be pretty in your face for me to pick up on though, so it could be too strong for some.
I use an immersion chiller hooked to a pump sitting in a cooler filled with ice. It works ok, but my immersion chiller is too small so I'm thinking of converting the cooler to something similar to a jockey box. Fill it with ice, open the valve on the bottom of the kettle and let gravity move it...
Awesome idea. When I was a kid my dad had a different model in his office. The lights worked, but the radio was shot so he just put a modern (at the time) boom box inside the old radio tuned to his favorite station. Everyone that came in was amazed at how well his antique radio worked.
Now I...