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    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Andes Mint Chocolate Stout

    I started with 185F. Once it was in the grain it went down to 168-170F. No starter used. It's fermenting really good right now. Kitchen has a chocolate aroma to it since its in my kitchen. I just hope it does not taste watered down. ABV might be another story. We will see. Are there any...
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    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Andes Mint Chocolate Stout

    I checked it when I was at the end of cooling my wort, about 70F. When I get home from work ill check it again if the yeast have not already started going to town.
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    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Andes Mint Chocolate Stout

    I did not check my gravity before boil because I thought it would be too hot to check it... My LHBS did the crush on the grains and it looked good. Hydrometer works. Checked with bottled water and was at 1.000. No gravity adjustments for tempature. I did stir vigorously on each batch sparge. I...
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    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Andes Mint Chocolate Stout

    Brewed this last night. Something went wrong. From using online calculators I mashed with 3.5 gallons of water and archived 156-157 mash temps for an hour. I drained the wort to a bucket and got 2 gallons. Then batch sparked twice with 2.25 gallons of water and had temps of 168-170 during the...
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    Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Andes Mint Chocolate Stout

    This is going to be my second all grain batch. What strike water temps and sparge water temps do you guys use.
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