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5 gal Moon Man clone + 10 gal Inspiration IPA + 5 gal Belgium caramel Trippel = 2471

+ 5.5 gal Moon Man Clone + 5.5 gal Inspirational IPA = 325

8846.5 + 5.5 gal La Bru Winter Ale, 5.5 gal Moon Man close, 5.5 gal Irish Red IPA = 8863.0 gal.

7967 + 6 gal BDouble Chocolate Stout = 7973

Moon man clone 5 gal and red ipa 5 gal 7575 + 10 gal = 7585

I had a bottle this evening and you could start to taste the vanilla coming through, if what was said I may have a huge vanilla taste after it settles down and allows the flavors to come through. Thanks for all the information, I'm heading to Mexico in November so I'll be doing some shopping...

When you say scrape, please explain.

I added at bottling. I added to taste but did not taste anything other than the cognac. The cognac was not overly bearing, so I would have thought the flavors would have come through. The beer does seem very carbonated as well but used the same priming sugar as I normally do

Cut & sliced in half, put black seed center in also. Was there more that I should have done?

I had 6 beans and about 15 anise stars sitting for almost 6 months. The beer has a really great bourbon flavor from the cognac but it didn't let the vanilla or anise come through. It has an awesome taste, just not what I was looking for. What does she use for alcohol in her extract?

I just made a winter ale that was suppose to have a vanilla and anise flavor. Made my own extract with beans and stars in a pint of cognac but came up way light on flavor of vanilla and anise. To get a decent flavor in a 5 gal batch, how many beans would be needed to get a subtle vanilla...

4197.5 + 5.5 gal 60 minute IPA 4203.0

+ 5 gal Red IPA 2869.5 + 5 = 2874.5

2010.5 + 5 heavy honey braggot +5 dogfish head 120 minute clone = 2020.5

265 + 5.5 gallons of Heavy Honey Braggot 270.5