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When wanting to add a fruity taste
Given that you would like to add fruit flavor to the same vessel that you plan to use for serving, adding actual fruit might become problematic. If you were attempting to add fruit flavor in a ...
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Flavoring Kombucha with herbs
Don't add anything with oils (eg. herbs, herbal and fruit teas) to your initial brew. The flavours will stay in your scoby and the oils will go rancid and impair future brews. Add it to your bottles ...
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Use of green tea to flavor beer
I've heard of this being done a couple different ways but more or less the same set of variables as with adding coffee to beer. Adding the tea to secondary for a few days to effectively cold-steep ...
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Flavoring Cider at bottling
The advice given to me by a professional cider brewer was to put the fruit flavouring in at the last possible moment i.e. At bottling. Use natural fruit pressed and filtered. I have put a small amount ...
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Flavoring Cider at bottling
Are you making still cider or sparkling cider? If you are making sparkling cider than your plan should work since the amount of sugar is negligible. If you are making still cider, you might get a ...
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Flavoring Kombucha with herbs
We use flavoring ingredients like herbs and berries during the initial steep. We don't add anything after the fermentation. We use mint in one of our recipes, and it works well. The advice I would ...
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Adding a cherry flavour to cider
All techniques you mention will work, e.g. juice, syrup or fresh fruits.
The only concern would be that you will have a fermented cherry flavor,
which may not be the same as the fresh cherries you ...
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Adding a cherry flavour to cider
I second JeanMi, fruit or syrup will work. Traditionally the Belgian brewers would add the cherries to the fermented beer then leave it in the conditioning tanks for 12 months as the cherries get ...
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Flavoring Kombucha with herbs
Like anything else in life unless you want to drink and serve/drink the final product with the leaves in there pull them out once you've gotten the flavor profile you want before bottling.
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Can I add black currant flavour to cider kit?
Disclaimer: I describe only the things i have experience with, or with things similar enough for me to be sure. There are many ways I heard but have no idea about, so feel free, encouraged even, to ...
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Use of "potions" / secondary
Only if there were more fermentables added from the "potion", i.e. fruit juice or other sugars.
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