ovrclokd and I bottled the chai-spiced stout last night. I knew the batch was a bit a short of the full 5-gallon target volume due to loss during blow-off, but it wasn't until I transferred it into the bottling bucket that I found that it was only 4 gallons. I used the priming calculator at TastyBrew.com to calculate how much corn sugar to add to the ( Read more... )

Transferred my chai-spiced oatmeal stout to secondary today. I estimate that I lost about a quarter gallon to blow-off, and the layer of trub in the bottom of the primary fermenter was very thick -- spices, yeast, some hop debris -- so I lost a little more there ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to brew a chai stout for a while now, ever since I heard someone mention one on a podcast back in the fall. I finally got around to doing it this morning (Sunday, 1/22). I had searched online and found a post with a recipe, but it only has the recipe for the stout and not for the chai spices. I went ahead and got the ingredients ( Read more... )