Thanks for this, day_trippr. I'm about to add 2# of chocolate nibs that I soaked in 75ml of vodka, but don't see anywhere in BeerSmith 3 to add alcohol content to Misc. additions. The nibs are already in my BeerSmith calculations. Can I just take my final gravity before the nibs and compare to...
I brew a chocolate stout, using a few vanilla beans (split & scraped) soaked in vodka. Been thinking of changing things up, maybe using bourbon or rum.
What are your favorite liquors for making vanilla tinctures?
Do you use different processes depending on which liquor you’re using?
RO-water was heated
Grist at the ready
Went to pour in my obsessively-measured salts (spot on to the .00th of a gram), when I slipped, spilling most of them in the kettle... but some on the brew-room floor.
With most of the salts already in the water, there was no way out but through.
I wet my...
A fellow brewer from the promised land! I'm in Iowa, but grew up in Moohread. Always pine for my home state, and get back as often as I can. Really cool thing you got going with Forgotten Star! I'll have to see if I can get my hands on some.
As far as I understand, its good to drop to 50F (50–60, depending on who you ask), to get the yeast all sleepy so they don't interact and create hop bite or produce diacetyl, which can be an issue. Cheers!