stout

Hey guys, getting ready to bottle but the recipe didn’t give any directions on this! I want to bottle prime with sugar. Any advice on which sugars and what quantity?

Got a stout on the go in 2 glass carboys. 3 weeks fermenting and looked finished - beautiful black colour. But... Yoday 1 of the carboys started bubbling away like crazy and has gone back to the brown colour it was before turning black. See left back right above. Any idea whats going on?

I have tried pretty much all of the methods to try to get maple flavor in my beers. I've done a maple as priming sugar, maple-aged oak staves, fenugreek seed beer, maple extract beer, maple in primary, maple in secondary, maple soup, maple gumbo... just kidding about the last two. You get the...

Hi folks! I'm 1 week in to the fermentation on my big extract stout. And now i wounder if i can add some dextrin directly in to my fermentation vessel, or is it too late? I'm planning on kegging it in 2-3weeks from now.

So my idea is that i'll brew a beer (probably either a stout or a barely wine) and I'll let it age for a year. Approx 2 weeks before batch #1 is a year old, i'll brew batch #2. And I'll repeat this cycle year after year. Each time I'll pull an equal amount of each vintage and blend them...

I’m looking for a jacketed conical. I’d consider 7-8 or 15 gallon. From what I can find Brewers Hardware, Stout, Glacier Tanks and maybe Brewha are the only ones making jacketed conicals for home brewers. I’ve looked at buying new from Brewers Hardware but was hoping somebody may be looking to...

Hi I am about to bottle my first milk stout in which i will be adding a tincture of roasted cacao nibs and vanilla beans to the bottling bucket right before bottling. However i am in doubt as to whether the sugar contents of the adjuncts would mess up the usual priming sugar quantity and...

When I first started Home Brewing my first thought was not to brew some sophisticated Belgian Ale using only imported ingredients from some monastery high in the Alps, but rather I centered my aim to something more American. My aim was to brew something that showcased the truly American ideal of...

Charles Caleb Colton once said "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". As brewers, that is an exceptionally true statement. There's a reason that expressions like RDWHAHB have become a staple of brewing. It can be intimidating to develop a recipe, let alone one that's going to have...

As the Fall season approaches here in the Northeastern United States it brings with it the shorter days and cooler temperatures that signal the end of summer. In a few weeks the leaves of the deciduous trees in my neighborhood will start to change color. The same green leaves that provided...

Early this morning I brewed a Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. This is the first 12-gallon batch on "my" system. I possess a 14.5 gallon conical fermenter, so why not fill it? Since it was my first big batch, it was not without problems and a lot of learning. I learned a valuable lesson about combing...

Early this morning I brewed a Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. This is the first 12-gallon batch on "my" system. I possess a 14.5 gallon conical fermenter, so why not fill it? Since it was my first big batch, it was not without problems and a lot of learning. I learned a valuable lesson about combing...

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...

This will be my first attempt so do a big stout in a BIAB. Do you think this is being overzealous. I have posted the recipe. Has anyone tried this? Any tips, words of wisdom, alternatives are appreciated? ALL-GRAIN Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters) Brewhouse efficiency: 59% OG: 1.110 FG...

I looked through a few old forum posts, but there wasn't much info on this, so I thought I'd ask again: I want to bourbon barrel age a stout, but they're a bit expensive and impractical for me to try right now. I've also wanted to add coffee beans to a stout. Thought I'd kill two birds. I have...

Waited to long to ask this but I have print the labels today..... I have an imperial milk stout with coconut, vanilla, and Rye Whiskey soaked Oak Chips in it. I am struggling with where to enter it. Here is what I narrowed it down to: 30 A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (coconut is...

I have a bucket of stout I worked really hard on, and I'm pretty sure it's reached FG, but there's a smell to it that doesn't seem right. I'm going to try putting it in secondary for a while to see if it subsides. Two questions: 1) The smell I think is similar to vinegar, all I can pair it to...

Hi all, I'm 3 weeks into brewing my first biggish beer and I'm looking for some advice what to do next. It's a stout with OG of 1.070, so on the smaller end of the Imperial scale. 20 litre/5 gallon batch. I went with Mangrove Jacks M41 Belgian Ale yeast. Fermentation temperature was in the...

I have been thinking of making a video on my Youtube channel DrHans Brewery about Caramunich malt for quite some time but never got around to it. As I was sent an Imperial Stout with a high amount of Caramunich, I took the chance to at least talk a little about a malt that I think is quite...

Very excited about this! It's happily bubbling away in the primary as we speak. I used another tried-and-true victory stout recipe I've made as the base, and then added a bunch of fun stuff to it! Moompa Loompa Stout: 5.25 gal. OG 1.064 FG predicted 1.018 ibu's 42 5 lbs. extra light dme 2...