stewie24
Member
Hey all. I've started brewing roughly 2 weeks ago and have 3 batches currently fermenting / bottling. This past friday evening I went to a local homebrew shop. A friend of mine likes drinking Budweiser, so he suggested getting the following to brew:
Muntons American Style Light
Bag of Rice syrup solids
Bag of Maltodexterine
Now in less than 24 hours the beer has been fermenting for a week and its still bubbling like crazy. Had it not been bubbling I had planned on racking it to another carboy for a week, adding clarifying agents, taking a hydrometer reading, and tasting a sample to see what its like (out of the liquid in the hydrometer tube of course).
My question is this: Is this everything I need to make it taste like a beer? I mean I would have thought I should have gotten a pound or 1/2 pound of grain to cook at 155 degrees for half an hour, but I wasn't sure. I plan on going back to the store tomorrow to pick up my 4th carboy and was planning on getting some more hopped malt extracts.
So
1) Do i need grain?
2) if i'm trying another different kind of extract (such as nut brown ale) do I still get the maltodexterine and the rice syrup solids?
3) Is there anything else I should get to add to the extract that might make the beer taste better? (assuming i'll go with the nut brown ale)
Thanks in advance.
Muntons American Style Light
Bag of Rice syrup solids
Bag of Maltodexterine
Now in less than 24 hours the beer has been fermenting for a week and its still bubbling like crazy. Had it not been bubbling I had planned on racking it to another carboy for a week, adding clarifying agents, taking a hydrometer reading, and tasting a sample to see what its like (out of the liquid in the hydrometer tube of course).
My question is this: Is this everything I need to make it taste like a beer? I mean I would have thought I should have gotten a pound or 1/2 pound of grain to cook at 155 degrees for half an hour, but I wasn't sure. I plan on going back to the store tomorrow to pick up my 4th carboy and was planning on getting some more hopped malt extracts.
So
1) Do i need grain?
2) if i'm trying another different kind of extract (such as nut brown ale) do I still get the maltodexterine and the rice syrup solids?
3) Is there anything else I should get to add to the extract that might make the beer taste better? (assuming i'll go with the nut brown ale)
Thanks in advance.