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I just opened a bottle of this that I brewed a little over two years ago and WOW! The peanut butter calmed down and the cacao nibs are, I don't know, more refined tasting. Everything just goes really well together now. This one is a great ager. The underlying stout recipe is pretty tasty on it's...

I'm gonna add one more note, not so much to the recipe, but more on your expectations. Be prepared to wait for this to age a bit before judging how it turned out. My blondes tend to need at least 4 months before they start to really shine. After only a month they're still a bit green, slightly...

Even if it's gone south, it'll be good practice on that Keezer!

Robertus, that new hop schedule looks more on the mark. Kolsch is one of my favorites to have on tap, it's refreshing, subtly complex like a good pilz and the BMC crowd (I still have a few non-converts around) love it too. Make sure you Ferment at 60F for 2 weeks, the yeast need cool but not...

+1 to what raouliii said. Every fridge thermostat is wired differently, so toss up some pics. I have these units rewired as the "new" thermostats in both my fermentation fridge and keezer setup. So the power always stays on, and this thing only fires on the compressor as needed, exactly how...

+1 for temp control during fermentation. Without temp control you can't repeat your processes, you can't control the flavors the yeast impart (or don't). Once I added this to my system my beers went from OK to crowd-pleasers. You can do this for cheap, too. I've gotten a chest freezer and a...

Ugh. Just ugh. I live 5 minutes from AHS, drop on a couple times a month at least to window shop and chat up the awesome guys that work there if not to pick up some yeast, hops and maybe a specialty grain or two. The store is going massively downhill. Empty shelves, hardly any items in...

To run power through it to a fridge/freezer you should really have 12 gauge wire. Frys, home depot, lowes carries them in spools. But I usually buy 12-3 (12gauge-3wire) romex in the 25' coil at home depot for just under $30 and it lasts me several projects. And if you need to run a new outlet or...

+1 for what ReddHead said. Color is there for convenience so that you remember what is hot, neutral and ground. Organization is key, since mixing those can do bad things. Red is just a color. The US uses the standard of white/green/black, but they don't have special properties. There's a whole...

count me in

Started mashing a traditional hef, it's in the ferulic rest phase right now. Smelling wheaty!

Wowzers! I'm in on this puppy!

Wow. Just wow. This turned out so thick and delicious. My wife is over the moon on this recipe (and so am I!). Super chocolate and pb nose, very malty chocolate taste and pb aftertaste. Nice frothy light brown head. This is a keeper!

Just took one last gravity check before kegging after a 24 day primary and MAN is it clear! The fastest beer to clear I've done yet (not counting anything with s-04), not cloudy in the slightest. And it's been sitting in my 75 degree beer closet, no cold crash (I wanted a little haze, oh well)...

Kept mine on the PB2 and cacao nibs/cocoa powder for about a month. We just bottled it monday, so I tasted it uncarbed, but it was super smooth.

Bottled this morning, 5.55 gallons --> 55 bottles. Tasted great, chocolate malt nose, bitter sweet malty chocolate stout flavor with the tiniest peanut-butter after glow. Added back 3g of rehydrated dry yeast (after being in secondary for over a month with a higher ABV, I chose to not risk...

Hey Bobojuice, just a quick question, why do you have the probe in a tiny bottle of water instead of attached to a keg? You could be having a problem with carbonation because you have a warmer temp inside your keg than you think you do, especially because you're using a temp controller. The...

Ya, +1 for Caioz1jp, when I plugged it into Beersmith it's closest match is American Stout. I mixed my PB2 and cocoa powder in vodka to kill off any yeast or bacteria first and then added it to the mix. I think I won't do it that way again. It would have taken WAY too much vodka as that PB2...

No kidding! I got back from our christmas caravan to see the fam and it was time to cold crash the stout, so of course I did a gravity/sample first. Man, this stuff tastes really great already! I just finished cold crashing (to drop the chocolate and peanut solids since the s-04 dropped itself a...

7 days in the fermenter and it's still bubbling! This is my first time using 3711 and man is this yeast crazy. I did my starter at 68F, pitched at 70F and let it rise during the first two days to 75F on it's own (brew closet room temp). Then I threw a temp controlled heater in the closet and...