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Lawn Darts...an in experiment sugars. how very scientific.
BTW I wound up using SafeAle in my High Octane Ale concoction and after two weeks it tastes like I turned a pissed off grape fruit loose in my beer. I'll secondary it for a month before bottling in hopes it'll hop up and fruit out.
i am still drinking mine, as we speak actually, and it the banana is getting weaker with age. but the original purpose was to brew up an immediately drinkable beer, and this has not been such.
my next round of this will be with more malt, and perhaps more or a stronger hops.
I enjoyed the idea of using the sugars to make super drinkable stuff.
But I prefer to drink an ordinary bitter or a 60/- as an everyday lawnmower. If I need something to slake my thirst, then I would rather drink a light Wit or american hefe with lemon wedges.
I enjoyed the experiment and I can think of a few deviations of it I would try myself... Normally though I don't think of myself as being a sugar adjunct type of brewer.
HONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am doing it with honey next. But I am gonna up the hop profile tad.
brewskinewbski wrote:
HONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am doing it with honey next. But I am gonna up the hop profile tad.
Honey... great idea I hadn't thought of that.
HA kidding. I said it before I'll say it again. I love your passion for honey.
When are you making a Braggot! Half honey half beer... or is a Braggot half cider half beer????
I get confused.
Braggot is basically a beer where the bulk of the fermentable sugars are provided by honey.
Will be brewing up a batch of said experimental beer this week using... da da dum MAPLE!!!! Same specifics as originally discussed. I would have went with honey but I just used all 16 pounds of the honey I had left in a mead I am making for the wife.
I made a mead as one of the first things I ever brewed and it was great. cloudy, but tasted awesome and had a good kick to it.
DC
If you let the mead age it should clear.
I adjusted the process a tad and added the maple when I racked to the secondary. That was 3 pounds added three weeks ago and it's still chugging. A bubble every 15 seconds or so in the airlock. I am racking off the trub as I type as I don't like leaving beer on sediment for any longer than three weeks.
The maple was a complete and total failure!!!!!!!!!!!! 100% nasty as hell. Will try again with 1/3 the maple added at the last 5 minutes of the boil.