First Imperial Stout

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Message jflopsu beers 1862 º places 13 º 10:56 Tue 9/19/2017 I'm about to start brewing my first imperial stout (all-grain). I'm still relatively new at home brewing, but wanted to get a bit creative. I'm trying to figure out two things: 1. If I want to add cinnamon to the brewing process, at what step would I add it? 2. Can anyone share some experience on their success / failures / tips about using brown sugar to prime?
Message CLevar places 23 º 12:03 Tue 9/19/2017 Originally posted by jflopsu I'm about to start brewing my first imperial stout (all-grain). I'm still relatively new at home brewing, but wanted to get a bit creative. I'm trying to figure out two things: 1. If I want to add cinnamon to the brewing process, at what step would I add it? 2. Can anyone share some experience on their success / failures / tips about using brown sugar to prime? I've added cinnamon to booze to soak for a couple weeks, followed by dossing it in measure amounts to finished beer till the taste was where I liked it. Then scale up to the whole keg/carboy etc. For priming with brown sugar, I've only ever done it in a keg. I simply added a bunch of brown sugar to the keg, racked the beer on top, and "burped" it a couple times while the fermentation proceeded when the pressure got too high. Poor mans spunding?

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