Recent content by justin0469

I have quite a bit of peanuts I'm adding, about a pound, similar to the recipe below so a cup won't cover even a quarter of the peanuts. http://simplybeer.com/2010/12/09/homebrew-peanut-butter-porter-version-2/ though he didn't sanitize his peanuts with anything.

So I am soaking cacao nibs in vodka before putting them in the secondary and it looks like pretty much all the vodka has been soaked up by the nibs. As it was, not all the nibs were submerged, I just stirred them from time to time but there's pretty much no liquid vodka left. Should I add more...

So I was going to get vodka to soak some peanuts in before throwing them in the secondary and I saw some coconut vodka. Would it work to use coconut flavored vodka to soak it in if I try to make a coconut porter with some strong coconut flavor? I'd still toast some coconut for the secondary but...

So what is a peanut extract? Literally liquid peanut extract that you buy at the store or tincture like this? http://hollisbrewco.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-spice-tinctures.html

Have you made any progress on this? I'm wondering how to sanitize peanuts. I guess I could boil them, just not sure how that would affect flavor. I read the same article from Simply Beer...

When you mean you added the "Lemonaid" at bottling, you mean that you poured the "Lemonaid" mix into the pot with the beer with the fill valve just before bottling? I imagine you stirred it to make sure it was evenly distributed?