Hello everyone!
Our latest brew of amber beer has been fermenting perfectly for quite a while now, and will soon be ready to go to secondary. As mentioned in earlyer threads, we've split our batch in 3. A large 30L bucket (22L filled, just to make amber beer), and 2 smaller fermenting bottles (4L each, for experiments). We've decided to try to make chili/citrus beer in 1 of the bottles, and banana beer in the other. So after racking to secondary we will add the special ingredients. This is what we're planning to do:
Citrus/chili beer: We will grate the skin of 4 lemons and 2 limes, chop up some home grown spicey peppers (Not too many because they are DEADLY hot), put them in a small pan, add just a little bit of sugar and boil it all in the lemon/lime juice for quite a while. Then we will let it cool down and sieve it. We will add the fluid to our secondary and add a few whole (sanitized by boiling) peppers.
Banana beer: We couldn't really find a lot of info about banana beer, only bananabread beer but we figured that's not the same. We don't have any banana extract so we are planning to just get as much juice as possible out of 7 ripe bananas , boil it, cool it, and add it to the secondary.
As this are just two made up recipes, we'de like as many opinions and advices as possible. We don't mind taking some risks, as they are just experiments, but if you guys notice things that just sounds stupid, we'd like to know! Also ofcourse, if you have other ideas that are much better than ours, we'de love to hear all about them.
Thanks in advance, we're hoping to get some good feedback!
Our latest brew of amber beer has been fermenting perfectly for quite a while now, and will soon be ready to go to secondary. As mentioned in earlyer threads, we've split our batch in 3. A large 30L bucket (22L filled, just to make amber beer), and 2 smaller fermenting bottles (4L each, for experiments). We've decided to try to make chili/citrus beer in 1 of the bottles, and banana beer in the other. So after racking to secondary we will add the special ingredients. This is what we're planning to do:
Citrus/chili beer: We will grate the skin of 4 lemons and 2 limes, chop up some home grown spicey peppers (Not too many because they are DEADLY hot), put them in a small pan, add just a little bit of sugar and boil it all in the lemon/lime juice for quite a while. Then we will let it cool down and sieve it. We will add the fluid to our secondary and add a few whole (sanitized by boiling) peppers.
Banana beer: We couldn't really find a lot of info about banana beer, only bananabread beer but we figured that's not the same. We don't have any banana extract so we are planning to just get as much juice as possible out of 7 ripe bananas , boil it, cool it, and add it to the secondary.
As this are just two made up recipes, we'de like as many opinions and advices as possible. We don't mind taking some risks, as they are just experiments, but if you guys notice things that just sounds stupid, we'd like to know! Also ofcourse, if you have other ideas that are much better than ours, we'de love to hear all about them.
Thanks in advance, we're hoping to get some good feedback!