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What ingredients should I use for a grocery home brew?
Let's start with your hops replacements. Traditionally (before hops became common) all sorts of other herbs were used. These all had something in common: an intense bitter flavor. You need the ...
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Very light golden hazy beer with citrus flavour
As farmersteve said that bottle isn't going to work for carbonating. You need a bottle that will be air tight, and to add a priming sugar.
Cloudy is to be expected from 100% wheat.
About the citrus ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
Oxygen at this point may create some oxidation off flavors (wet paper) since you're close to 50% attenuation.
Try to warm it up and swirl more. I would go to 74°F.
I would question your measuring ...
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Apricot wheat ale extract recipe – advice and opinions
Mostly everything there looks good.
Exception is the use of maltodextrin which is non-fermentable. So it will increase the OG and FG but not the ABV resulting in a beer that may be too sweet and ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
It is most likely not the nutrients that are needed but oxygen, your stir will have introduced sufficent oxygen to drop a further 5 points of gravity.
I advise popping the top and giving it a really ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
So, actually, after one week or so, i have new data.
As you can see on the graph below, my fermentation restarted and slowly
made its way to ~1.020 (it's still fermenting and i'll leave it for one ...
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Extract American Wheat Specialty Grain recommendations?
I would suggest steeping a pound of Carapils. It will improve the grainy flavors that you just can’t get from extract alone, and since it is already converted (caramel/crystal malt), no mashing is ...
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Extract American Wheat Specialty Grain recommendations?
IMO you've got a nice beer here that will be really drinkable for the season when it's ready in a few weeks. Really, there isn't a need for specialty grains unless you want to just add them out of ...
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What ingredients should I use for a grocery home brew?
I would get some honey, maybe some fruit, bakers' yeast and make a mead.
Factory produced bread yeast generally has an alcohol tolerance of around 14% AbV.
https://www.growforagecookferment.com/mead-...
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How should I determine a ratio between malts?
For a 24L batch of extract lager beer I often use this recipe. It can be modified as wished but it gives a guide to what can be done. The hops can be changed for any similar amount of "nobel hops" but ...
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Adding Orange and/or Corriander to Secondary
I added 7g of bitter Orange peel and 7g of fresh cracked (not ground) coriander seed directly into a 25 Litre bucket after 4 days of fermenting a wheat beer. I left them in for 10 days. It seemed like ...
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