cacao nibs

I am planning to make pastry stout. But I have some questions. One is to store cookies in vodka for a week and put both vodka and cookies in the second fermentation. If I put vodka together at this time, wouldn't it increase alcohol and adversely affect beer? Also, is there enough flavor...

Hey guys, I brewed a White Stout last week and the recipe calls for cacao nibs and whole coffee beans addition after fermentation. I'm trying to skip the secondary part and I'm wondering how I can achieve this. Option #1 Adding nibs and coffee beans directly into primary after fermentation...

Hey guys, Just wondering if I really need to soak the cinnamon sticks in alcohol before throwing it into secondary since the ABV is so high as it is. I don't really think I do but wanted to get on here and ask just to make sure. Also, from what I've read, I should let them sit in secondary for...

Ok - I awhile back I decided on Memorial day to make my Banana Beer. This year its a stout. The last banana beer was a Dubbel Fat Tire Clone. This year its gonna be a chocolate & banana sweet milkshake stout. Its a sweet stout by style but between the cocoa, banana, the malt selection and...