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Suggestions for a quick brew?!?!?!?
You might try brewing a wheat beer with some honey. I just started drinking one I brewed a while back and it turned out pretty damn good. Took a long time to carbonate though. Mine was an extract brew:
7lbs. wheat LME
1 oz Saaz
irish moss
.75 oz bitter orange peel
.75 oz. coriander seed
WLP 051 Cali. V
added one pound of honey to half the batch into 2ndry(so I would double that for 5 gallons)
other half got blueberry puree( turned out tasty, but will use extract from now on)
If I do this beer again, I will boil part of the honey, dry hop it with a half oz of cascades, get rid of the orange, up the spice a bit, and use a drier ale yeast(WLP 001 or their blended strain). All in all though it was a good experiment. Good luck either way you decide to go with this, keep it posted.
BTW, Avocado honey?? That sounds awesome!!
Honey is actually quite hard to ferment as it is loaded with natural antiseptics and preservatives. They have found honey in Egyptian tombs and all they had to do was add water to is to reconstitute the honey and it was as good as new. Raw honey will not spoil. That probably the reason why your beer took so long to finish and why meads take so long to ferment.
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