A bit late this year in brewing my Xmas ale, but its been fermenting since 5/10/16 and is nearly done.
This year, I just used an English special bitter recipe and added chocolate malt, black malt, molasses and cinnamon into the mix :)
OG was 1.062 so hoping for a nice 6 plus % ale, anyway the other day after taking a gravity reading the cinnamon flavour was very strong, so it got me thinking of adding something else and I came up with Cocoa Nibs.
I ordered 250g and they have arrived, just need to work out how to add them and thought id ask your thoughts on it, having read numerous ways of adding them.
The most popular seems to be soak them in vodka for a few days and add them to secondary, i don't usually do a secondary but think i may with this one.
Another suggestion is to roast them then add them, another is to boil in water and add them...
Anyone with experience of this? Cause I sure haven't!
My main concern is sanitation of the nibs and I am swaying towards boiling them in a small amount of water.
I will be bottling this when done,
Cheers
Jay :)
This year, I just used an English special bitter recipe and added chocolate malt, black malt, molasses and cinnamon into the mix :)
OG was 1.062 so hoping for a nice 6 plus % ale, anyway the other day after taking a gravity reading the cinnamon flavour was very strong, so it got me thinking of adding something else and I came up with Cocoa Nibs.
I ordered 250g and they have arrived, just need to work out how to add them and thought id ask your thoughts on it, having read numerous ways of adding them.
The most popular seems to be soak them in vodka for a few days and add them to secondary, i don't usually do a secondary but think i may with this one.
Another suggestion is to roast them then add them, another is to boil in water and add them...
Anyone with experience of this? Cause I sure haven't!
My main concern is sanitation of the nibs and I am swaying towards boiling them in a small amount of water.
I will be bottling this when done,
Cheers
Jay :)
