Yo yo , Alcamahol !!!

How do I up my abv !?!? ... All of my 6 batches have ended tasting pretty dope but they have all lacked abv ... I heard about adding reg sugar but adding a whole pound to my 3 gallon kettle sounds insane .... Anybody got any pointer ?

 

Moar boooooze!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I love it when my batches taste pretty dope.

 

Blech! I can't imagine that being good. I've got a feeling that advice was a bit on the tongue in cheek side. If so, I agree with you. We don't brew our own to get the ABV up. We brew our own because we enjoy the experience of brewing and tasting the fruits of our labor. High ABV is appropriate with some styles, but if your motivating factor in brewing is high ABV, you might as well get into distilling, which we don't talk about here.

 

We can't buy everclear in PA and everclear is dope. I'm bummin yo.


As far as adding more alcohol, add sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, brown sugar, corn syrup, dme, lme, fruit, malt, corn, oats, barley, wheat, or candy bars depending on the beer style.

 

Or just buy some bud light and cheap vodka. It would probably end up being cheaper than brewing your own rocket fuel...

 

u mean da shiyut u brew ain't da shiyut? yuz cud always add some vodka, yo

 

Another great thing we can't get in pa!!!! I guess i'll have to make my own just like deschuttes beers. Who has an everclear clone recipe.

 

Yo yoops u on the right track homes. Toss dat suga in there if yous got it funking up yo dresser. It'll be straight but if you don't got tha time that everclear is fo real though.

 

God damn lol ... I wasn't looking to spike my homebrew with cheap nasty waster sauce hahaha .. But I'm also not trying to brew my own beer and not get drunk when I want to ! ... I was jus looking for a point or 2... I jus drank 5 of my BrewersBest imperial pale ales and almost no fuzziness

 

Well learn to type English...you know with sentences, grammar, and spelling.

Could be any number of things...from water dilution, adding more base grains, mash temp, to adding some type of sugar. Maybe start with your process.

 

My Alcamahol is not flamenting into ABV. Not dope.

 

hahhaha. I forgot about that post.

 

Nice!

 

i remember that "airplane" ref.. still makes me laugh

now.. ask your question in english

 

Use peaches to increase the fuzzy units.

 

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I usually have about 3 gallons in my boil kettle , and then top it off with a few extra to make it 5 gallons ... How much sugar can I add to up the abv without distorting the flavor

 

Top it off in the ferm bucket / carboy that is *

 

And by the way that was English enough sir , ease back

 

you could add 1lb or so. extract would be better though.
it depends on what your recipe is.
I like 5-7lbs of extract in my lighter beers. If your doing can kits with 3.3lb cans you might want to use 2.
one of my house session beers has 4lbs of DME and 1.5lbs rice extract and it was formulated for a 3 gallon boil 5 gallon batch.

 

English enough? Only if you consider illiteracy normal.

 

This thread is mad phat dope, yo!

 

Yooper has the straight dope, yo!

For reelz, you can make a bigger beer by adding more fermentable (the stuff that yeast turn into alcamahol). It's quite simple. But! I would add sugar AND some extract (or grain, if you brew AG) because as Yooper says, just sugar might thin out the body. And just extract might make it too malty.

There are online calculators that can tell you what the change in ABV will be if you add fermentables. So you can know ahead of time how much alcamahol you are going to get.

I personally don't have an interest in making a higher ABV for the sake of getting stoned. I'd be interested in making a good-tasting high ABV beer for the technical challenge, but that would be something in the range of 15-21%. An 8-12% beer would not be hard to do at all.

 

If them brewz be dope, then drink them dope brewz and get yo crunk on wif likker.

That's enough of that. Seriously, if your beers are coming out tasty then enjoy your tasty beers. Don't try to alter them just to get more ABV out of them. If you want higher ABV beers that still taste good, then look at different recipes like Yoop and Amanda said. Trying to bump up the gravity on a recipe that's balanced already is going to end up tasting off regardless. There are a lot of styles out there that balance alcohol, hops, and malt.

 

Yo..... Dat 'ich Cray!

 

adding a lb of sugar will add roughly 1% to your ABV, give or take, depending on the beer. I would suggest Dextrose, it ferments easy and leaves less flavor behind. That being said the only flavor you will MAYBE notice is a bit thinner beer. You can add honey to jack up the ABV as well as add aroma and a slight honey twang. Then you can call it "Honey Whatever Ale" Experiment, have fun!

 

Is this Op?

 

Yo dawg...

I herd u like alcohol, so I put the booze in your booze so you can drunk while you drink.

 

Hah! I completely forgot about the Xzibit meme.

 

We can buy Everclear here in Georgia, but we CAN'T buy beer >15% ABV. Of course, you could always pour the Everclear in DFH90min and it's pretty much the same as the 120 minute, right? Maybe throw in a few hop pellets to make up the difference? :cross:

 

Hate to be that guy, but it actually might taste kind of close. If you ask me, 120 minute is overrated. Just like 90 minute only it burns. Not pleasant.

 

I can't be the only one who thought of Jesse Pinkmann from Breaking Bad

 

Jesse was my first thought too! It was the "yo"

 

I'm afraid to watch that show. I don't have enough time to get things done around here as it is.

But I bet you 5 to 1 my wife gets hooked on it before the year is up.