Recent content by Zeward

If I am trying to limit the sweetness I slowly add lactose until the strawberries get syrupy. Usually is it is some where between a half to a full cup for 5 pounds of strawberries. The riper the strawberries the less sugar I need. For beers that already have a strong dose of lactose (Milkshake...

My process for Strawberries is to wash, quarter, mix with a small amount of lactose, and freeze for a day or two.The lactose pulls the juice out of the strawberries and make sure you have enough sweetness to balance the tartness. I have tried this in secondary post cold crash as well straight...

You might be able to get good isomerization of AA from hops faster by using a small pressure cooker and increasing the pH of the hop water slightly. The pressure would increase the speed of the boil and hopefully utilization of hops. As I recall you get higher hop utilization out of a slightly...

I wouldn't replace DME with Corn sugar. DME not only add to ABV, but also to flavor and body of the beer. Essentially it is just dehydrated LME. Corn sugar is mostly fermentable so does not add much to flavor or body to beer till there are fairy high amounts of sugar. Corn sugar is mostly used...

I used to recycle twist off bottles and caps when I made root beer back in high school. 25% of the time I had a bad seal and it was a major PITA getting those caps back on tight. I was only doing 12 bottle at a time and would end up with blister and cuts all over. I could never imagine doing 48...