Hey,
I just surfed the web and got this neat recipe. I made the brew last night. Before I went to bed the beer had all these layers in it. I looked this morning and now all the layers have coagulated into these smaller thick looking layers. What's this from??
-Victor
What's the recipe? That may give us a clue...
---------->Denny
Hey, well.. it's this: 16 oz of semi-sweet baking chocolate 4 tsp of nutmeg 10 inch stick of cinnamon 2 oz. of hops a lot of water 9 pounds of malt/cornsugar 3 lb grain infusion mash yeast 45 minute mash 60 minute boil All I can think is a protein coagulation or maybe yeast growth or maybe tanin agglomeration
-victor
This is just a guess, but since you've got about a pound of cocoa-butter in there, that might be part of what's floating on top.
Karl S.
Could it possibly screw things up what with the cocoa butter and all. I couldn't find enough unsweetened bakers chocolate. Did I really screw things up?
Relax, it will be fine.... it's just a fact that chocolate doesn't dissolve very well at all. I've tried using it in the past, and it always leaves a layer of chocolate gunk on the bottom. I don't think I'll use it anymore.
Is the alcohol going to help dissolve it, if that's what that collodial agglomeration is? Because it looks really messed up. I shook it a little while ago trying to get the yeast started which it hasn't yet in either case the beer colloidals fractionated back out again.
Where did you find this recipe and what is it that you think is neat about it? There are so many more traditional recipes out there, I'm wondering how you chose this one!
It's really going now. You can see it roil harldy scrutining it. It's from one of these homepages. What do you mean?
-Victor
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