Search results

Some places that my friends and I like to go and enjoy a brew have a no-glass policy so I was planning on bottling my latest cherry apfelwein in PET bottles. I figured that this would probably work out nicely because plastic bottles simply must be much less expensive than glass, right? Nope...

Unless you like cider vinegar of course.

"Its made from over-fermenting alcohol. As sugar ferments its converted to alcohol, but when alcohol is fermented further with air, the alcohol is catylitically oxidized by the zymase in yeast and becomes the carboxylic acid acetic acid (the chemical name for vinegar)." from howtomakevinegar.com

I'm no expert but it sounds like it got oxidized

I see no indication that these bottles can hold pressure. plus they have a flat bottom like a SmartWater bottle might, which would bulge out when charged.

I was looking around to see if I could find a source for PET bottles designed for carbonated beverages. I've seen a few of the amber colored ones for Mr. beer and stuff, but I was hoping someone knew of a place that sold 1-liter or so bottles brand new, even if they are not amber, especially if...

table sugar had its own problems, I thought? besides, apple juice's sugar is primarily fructose. Sugars 23.9g Sucrose 3125mg Glucose 6523mg Fructose 14210mg Why would this cause issues similar to adding table sugar?

Thoughts on fructose vs glucose (corn sugar)? I can get pure fructose right down the street for about 99 cents a pound instead of going all the way across town to get glucose.

yeah it all dissolved fine. I'll probably measure the gravity tonight to see if it's pancake syrup. Though by my math, including all the sugar in the apple juice that's a total of about 9.5 pounds of sugar total in it and I've done barleywines with more sugar in it to start than that.

I went to make this recipe from memory and I thought it was 5 gallons of apple juice, 5 pounds of sugar. Just read it and realized it was 2 pounds. Will this finish? is there anything you think i should do?

That guy's an idiot though. He tried to neutralize the acid with baking soda. baking soda + acid = Salt. In response to the gentleman suggesting 6 ounces of hops, I didn't want to cover the flavors of the cola or candy all that much. The way I see it, this can go two ways: Either it'll be...

Feh, elitist.

Waste...? Or are you just jealous that we thought of it first?

So, a friend of mine and I, while bottling a batch of stout, got to talking about how anything with sugar could be made into beer. So we came up with the following recipie: 14 Liters Coca Cola (water up to 5 gallons) 20 oz of snickers bars 3lbs dry malt extract (amber) 2oz east kent...

So, I wanted to get my friend into the homebrew scene and I gave him my old Mr. Beer setup. We made a simple dark ale and then we bottled it. It looked good, tasted good, smelled good. A week later, we cracked them open and there was no carbonation. Zero. None. Like dark brown tap water...

The Longest Yard

update: I gave it another week to see how she's going along and it looks like things are beginning to resolve themselves already. The sweetness is dying down and the maltyness is coming through better. The hop aroma is very good. SWMBO still doesn't like it, but she's a miller fan. One...

I'll do my best to answer the questions here. I made a 2 liter yeast starter. Fermentation was so vigorous it blew the top off of my brew pail within 24 hours. the recipe was given as an imperial stout (which, obviously, it isn't) and had an ABV of 11%. It was definitely an "and" not an "or"...

I brewed a big beer according to recipe i found on tastybrew.com. It had 13 pounds of dry malt in a 5 gallon batch, but I ended up watering it down to 6 because it seemed a bit excessive. It fermented for 4 weeks and then I bottled last monday. I just popped one open today and the flavors...

I just tried another sample and the flavors are now a bit weird. It tastes very herbal. I think the boil taking too long made my aroma hops into flavoring hops. It's not bad, It just doesn't fit any beer I've ever had.