Moved the big chocolate stout base into the secondary today, on top of 5 oz. of dried smoked serrano peppers and a couple cinnamon sticks, as well as 1/4 cup of raw cacao powder and 4 oz. of cacao nibs. I was a little worried about stray yeast on the peppers (no idea if I needed to be, but whatever!) so I soaked the peppers and cinnamon sticks in some vodka for a couple days. All this mess went into a nylon hops bag before the infusion...gotta remember to drop a couple
whiskey stones in there to weight the bag down next time. Yeah, you could just go find some nice rocks on your own. LOL
FG came out at 1.022 (from an OG of 1.090,) so this is gonna sit down just under 9% ABV. My test sample is pretty tasty, so if I hit the proper amounts of those smoked serranos and cinnamon sticks, this one is gonna come out great!
And that's it for the kitchen this week. Hopefully the weather will stay nice and I can start thinking about a little bit of BBQ'n. In the meantime, drink like a chimney and jump like a crocodile!
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