Boosting my gravity
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EFresh
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Using a half pound or more of Cara-pils/Dextrine as specialty grains can help. It will add more body to your beer, which is sometimes undesirable if your looking for a lighter beer.
Clann
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Looking for body or alcohol?
If you are talking alcohol then add a pound of sugar, honey or malt extract to your recipe.
If you are looking for body then go with the dextrine or cara-pils
If you are talking alcohol then add a pound of sugar, honey or malt extract to your recipe.
If you are looking for body then go with the dextrine or cara-pils
terrapinj
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if you add sugar it will completely ferment out and can leave the beer dryer - not necessarily a bad thing dep on style but may not be the best option for a stout
you can also just add more LME/DME
you can also just add more LME/DME
Brown sugar will work well with that. It will give you more ABV. The beer will be dryer but brown sugar will add some flavors that table sugar won't. Turbinado (Sugar in the raw) is 'sometimes' used in stouts and poters. You might try that.
terrapinj
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you can add to the boil or if its a really big beer you can add it to the primary in a water solution after the most active fermentation starts to slow down
So I added 1 lb of turbinado to the boil. Hopefully it won't dry it out to much, the kit did come with one pound of lactose so maybe that will balance it out a bit. The og was supposed to be 1.051, the wort is cooling now so I'll let you know what if any change this made.
you can also add pure honey to add abv. i know you've already added this time, but something to think of in future
NorthRiverS
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I have used a 16oz. bottle of corn syrup with very good results in a brown ale kit.
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