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Use a vegetable peeler to take off strips of the peels instead of a zester. Soak peels in vodka for a few days to make an extract and to sanitize everything. Dump the whole concoction in after fermentation is complete. Dry hop for a few days/week. Adding to the boil or during primary...

The Irish are fun, but their beer and food is boring. (although a full Irish breakfast is pretty intense) Irish stout is a great style, but it is simple and doesn't really lend itself to well to thinking outside the box, IMHO.

In Buffalo, NY as well!! I do half batches on the stove, BIAB Doing a 3 gallon batch of oatmeal stout as we speak.

Lactose doesn't produce carbonation. Did you mean nitrogen? Boulder Shake is often served on nitro.

It's normal. You are being hyper critical. Just like when I give someone a beer and they say "Thanks, the beer was good" I want to rip my hair out. Good? Good how? What did you think of the carbonation? Were the hops apparent in the aroma? Was the body and mouth feel good and did they...

Yes, you can, and should use both to get the best of both worlds. For the cocoa powder: -I will heat up a small amount of water in a sauce pan and then slowly add the powder while whisking until I have added it all and have a chocolate syrup. I then add that to the boil right before flame...

Could you please elaborate? I searched it but everything is in deutsche.

No roasted barley? Not really digging the color.

You're crazy to think there isn't chocolate flavoring added to this beer

lol Shock Top Anything other than the basic white type beer is just a wheat beer pumped full of artificial flavoring.

Are you looking for chocolate flavor/aroma? If so, steeping chocolate malt ain't gonna do it. Since you can't get nibs, boil a bit of water then simmer and stir in 4-5 oz cocoa powder until you have a nice chocolaty syrup. pour into your fermentor but expect alot of trub. That should give...

Mashed this at 156-158 with US-05 finished at 10.20 which is right where I wanted down from 10.63 I added 4oz dutch cocoa powder at 1 min which I had slowly stirred into a simmering saucer pan of water until it was a nice chocolate syrup. This was I had zero clumping issued and all the cocoa...

I begun to just use German Magnum exclusively for bittering. It's cheap and economical in terms of AA.

So what's it taste like? Is it chocolately? What's the impact on the mouth feel and body? Head retention?

Resurrection Just put this in the fermentor. Slight change to the hop schedule and I used US-05 instead of Bell's yeast, hope that doesn't throw it off too much Color was great, nice ruby color. Can't wait!!

That's the thing, you ARE paying, you've just been conditioned to think that you aren't. NOTHING is free.

You should be fine without the towels. I've never had a problem.

Use a bucket

Woops. 1.016 ;)

It's a pretty sweet beer, I bet the FG is somewhere around 10.16 or higher.