Recent content by IraJacobs

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Thinking about the cider back sweetening route, you could back sweeten your beer with frozen berry juice concentrate (boil first). When I back sweetened cider, I used frozen concentrated apple juice, along with the Sorbate/Bisulfite addition. Bit unusual for "brewing", but sounds like a very...

It's hard to add sweet to beer that the yeast won't clobber. You already added a lot of lactose. Can we assume you also mashed high (> 154 F)? I just made a Cracker Jack beer and used Honey malt which adds some sweetness on the front end even though the finish was dry. But that would be for...

After letting my amber ale go to 92, I tasted it on day 3 and it was AWFUL (like sour cherry wine). Almost all activity had ceased by day 4. Racked to secondary on day 5, But by day 8 much of the strange flavor had gone away, and by day 14 (kegging), it simply had noticeable fruity esters...