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Nope, you should be fine. You can add lactose in secondary if you want to as long as you use boiled water. It's not fermentable and undergoes no conversion because of the heat.

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OK cool! Can't wait to see how your brews turn out, guys!

Be careful about using Hershey's anything chocolate, I've read that processed chocolate can give you off flavors. I have no experience with it, personally. I've always use cacao (nibs and powder) which is unroasted/unprocessed cocoa.

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That seems really high, yes. I think you're fine letting it go in primary another week. My est FG on BeerSmith is 1.015, my grav now is 1.018. My OG was higher as well though, est 57, measured 64. I essentially followed the original recipe, plus added 2 boxes of grahams in the mash before...

Can you be more specific? Do you need subs for all the hops? This might help. http://www.brew365.com/hop_substitution_chart.php

OK so finally had the chance to brew this today. Again, first AG so I'm hoping I didn't screw up too badly. :) I wanted to do my own version of this recipe so I changed a couple of things. In addition to switching the amounts for the roasted and chocolate malts (1 lb to 3/4 lb and 3/4 lb to...

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Yeah, I thought about that and considered maybe doing 1 box of crackers and then augment with late-boil additions of brown sugar, cinnamon and molasses, and maybe honey as well. ETA: just did the calculation on 2 boxes, which would be 4.2 grams of sodium, which is 0.15oz which doesn't seem like...

I saw this in an older discussion thread somewhere in the forums, not sure exactly where. But the oils in the "cream" filling part of them would absolutely kill any head retention you might have had.

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Hi all - I'm doing my first AG batch attempt so I'm trying to sort out all the details and settings and options in BeerSmith. Crap there's a lot of stuff in there!!!! Rather head-spinning for me... Anyway, I'm using a base sweet/milk stout recipe and adding 3 lbs of crumbled graham crackers...

Sorry, last weekend got away from me and I ran out of time. Plan to do it this weekend and will definitely report back!