It's been 2 weeks since I bottled it. I tried one last night. Tasty, but still flat...I know the yeast must be having a hard time fermenting the priming sugar with all that alcohol. Maybe I should have re-pitched some fresh yeast before bottling it.
4 weeks?!?!?! Let's see if I can wait some more. I like instant gratification .
You might want to stay away from high gravity brews then. I think my batch of this took 6 - 8 weeks before I was happy with the carbonation and longer than that before I thought it hit it's peak.
My brew of this has been in the fermentor for a week now. I'm about to transfer to the secondary. I used 8lbs. Light DME and because of what seems to be a nationwide lack of simcoe hops right now I just used some left over Northern Brewer hops from my last brew. Oh and I did a 3.5 gallon boil and topped off to 5 gallons in the fermentor, I mixed the solution very well and got a good OG so it's definitely not a 6 gallon batch. My OG was 1.0865 (i put the 5 there because it wasn't quite 1.087 but almost). I used a small pinch of saffron, roughly 20 threads worth. I was able to get the proper grape juice concentrate from the wine section of northernbrewer.com.
I didn't put a blow off hose on it but I did have a little bubble out of my airlock the night after adding the grape juice. No explosion though. My primary is a 6 gallon fermentor so maybe the extra headspace helped out there.
I'll keep everyone posted on how she turns out.
absolutely.
Just had my daughter price Spanish Saffron at the grocery store she works at....$20 for .06oz
If you live close to a Trader Joes, I believe they sell saffron threads for around 5 or 6 bucks. I'm not sure how many, but it would be more than enough for this brew
Finding and pricing all the ingredients. The DME I think I need is Muntons DME light, would this be the correct choice?
I think the recipe in Extreme brewing is for Liquid malt extract. If you are using DME I think you should multiply by 0.8.
I think the recipe in Extreme brewing is for Liquid malt extract. If you are using DME I think you should multiply by 0.8.
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