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Hello. Tomorrow i want to brew a Elderflower "Champagne". I found a few recipes, but they make a low abv drink (only 5%). Is it possible to make it 10% without tasting too bad (harsh) ? I plan using 75% sugar and 25% honey. Other ingredients will be fresh elderflowers, lemons zest and peel...

Hello. I am planing in opening a nano brewery. We will produce Belgian styles beers. We are starting with a Blonde Ale and a Dubbel. We planned to use a Wyeast, but it is very expensive to use for quantities of 450 liters a batch. Only the costs of the Wyeast needed for 450 liters would be 410...

Hello. I plan to open a nano brewery (in Europe), i have found almost all the equipment needed, except a HLT, and i am not sure if i need one. I will use an electric brewing kettle with a 500 l capacity...

I brewed today an IS. It is an extract with partial mash. It had to come around 1100 OG but it came at only 1090. Beside the extract and the malts i used also 370 g cane sugar, transformed into a candi syrup (using water and calcium hydroxide, and boiled for 35 minutes) I thought that i will...

Hello, I'm planning in brewing an IPA using Amarillo, Cascade and Perle also dry-hopped. I want to add at minute 45, 900 grams - 1 kg of fresh apricots (washed, peeled and chopped). Will it influence the aroma? Is it too much ? What about the sugars in them, how much will they boost the...

Hello. I have a question. Some months ago i did a dubbel and a tripe. I used 8.5 grams of priming sugar per liter of beer, and both came under-carbonated, especially the dubbel (even if i used same amount of priming sugar for both), the yeast was a liquid yeast that was almost expired, but i...

Hello. Happy new year. Im planing to brew 2 new beers, one Imperial IPA dry hopped and using in it dried apricots and one Imperial Stout using oak chips soaked in bourbon + vanilla and other condiments. I had the recipes before and i wanted to use wheat for head and body, for the IIPA i want to...

hello, i made a batch of tripel, it came darker than i expected. i made it using DME and some grains (abbey, carapils, biscuit and wheat), it should be around 7-8 SRM, but it seems a lot darker. the dme was added in the boil for 60 mins, if i add the DME in the last 10 mins instead of 60 mins...

hello, i am planing to brew a tripel and a dubbel beer, both extract - partial mash recipes, in the dubbel im using 14.5 % candi rocks sugar, and in tripel 15.9% candi rocks. im going to use some speciality grains also, mashing them at 72 celsius degrees apparent attenuation for both...

i'm planing to make a dubbel, i want to make my own candi syrup, but i have a few questions: 1) i'm making it using 350gr of sugar, to calculate the abv how i proceed ? i will have 350 gr of sugars even if i add around 100 ml water ? so in the recipe calculator i add 350 cane sugar ? 2) do i...

Hello, im planing to brew my first extract beers. Before i brewed for 4 years with kits. I made my own recipes. I did read a lot of books and forum articles, but i still have a few questions. so here are the questions: 1) is the method ok ? 2) should i use 12 liters or 12.5 liters to get 9.5...

Hello, im planing to brew my first extract beers. Before i brewed for 4 years with kits. I made my own recipes. I did read a lot of books and forum articles, but i still have a few questions. so here are the questions: 1) is the method ok ? 2) should i use 12 liters or 12.5 liters to get 9.5...