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Pretty sure you can order cacao nibs through Brewers Best online or if you have a gourmet baking type retail location in your area they may also have them. Wish I could help you more than that but I just racked my first brew experiment with cacao nibs this past weekend. We racked a stout onto...

Bottled the oatmeal stout yesterday. I believe it was just a re- actve fermentation. The FG wasn't quite where we wanted it to be but it ended up around 1.023, and we had no other option but bottling due to busy schedule coming up. We bottled 52 bottles of raspberry wheat and 49 bottles from the...

That's what my thought/hope was. I will be testing and hopefully bottling this batch this weekend along with our raspberry wheat this weekend. I will be sure to throw up an update after tasting the left over from last bottle.

I did not because I was in a hurry that day, but planned on bottling this weekend if the hydro reading is good..

Windsor packet, rehydrated...

Would it be a bad idea to wait til this Saturday to bottle this or should I be bottling it a.s.a.p. to prevent anything further as much as possible?

There really wasn't that much extra headspace? Its a 5 gallon batch in a 5 gal better bottle..

No. It has sat in the closet shown in he picture untouched and the only change in temp. according to the thermometer strip was down, to between 66 and 68 from 70... there is actualy more build up today than there was yesterday also.

So I brewed an oatmeal stout with my brewing buddy on May 5th and the beginning fermentation seemed pretty normal. A few days of aggressive krausen (although a bit less aggressive than some of our other brews) and it leveled out nicely becoming dark and dropping all of the noticeable sediment...

Good luck...