I had bought an Irish stout kit a few weeks ago and decided to try making it into a chocolate stout. (at my wife's request!) The numerous recipes I found online mentioned adding Hershey's cocoa powder to the boil for 10 minutes, so I did just that (8 tbsp).
Some notes so far:
- OG was 1.034, but the wort was pretty warm, so it's likely higher in reality.
- fermentation took a while to start, probably because the wort was still warm. I need a wort chiller.
- The stupid rubber grommet for the fermentation lock popped out as I was putting the lock in, so I had to fish t out of the bottom of the fermenter. Argh! I should buy a pile so if that happens again, I can just pop in a new one and dig the old out of the sediment (and throw it away).
- The only hops used were at the very beginning of the boil!
Tuesday, August 12. 2008
chocolate stout into fermenter
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