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A note on the name: Chocoloate Antelope came from a game of Pictionary with Chad and Erin Rawls. My wife, Kelli and Chad were on a team with my Kelli drawing. The word to draw was Chocolate Mousse. Kelli had drawn a chocolate bar and a moose. Chad got the chocolate part but couldn’t quite get the animal. He was naming every animal in the zoo and as the last grains of the sand dropped throught the hour glass he had a eureka moment and triumphantly yelled out “CHOCOLATE ALTELOPE!” It took several minutes before the game to continue because we were all laughing so hard.

Notes

RECIPIE NOTES: Rounded up the hops to 1oz. used a couple different kinds of cocoa based on what was available in the local stores. Changed the Malto and Lactose addition time to 5 minutes to coincide with the cocoa addition. Pulled 2-3 quarts from the kettle at 30 min and mixed all dry ingredients. In the future will use the mixer to mix. Much easier and no clumps. Everything else on brew day was nominal. The flocculation was vigorous and then slowly diminished to just a few bubbles coming out every once in awhile. Cold crashed for about 24 hours and kegged. I forgot to add vanilla at kegging but the last batch didn’t have it and tasted fine. I worried that the FG was much higher than estimated. But looking back it was the same as the previous batch. It appears there is some unfermentables somewhere in the recipe that isn’t accounted for. Heavy cocoa taste and very thick. Will carbonate and sit in the keg for 10-14 days to condition before tapping it.