Oops. I hate it when people revive old threads!!! :cross:
between a couple of microbrews, a new forum to play with, and a few too many open tabs in firefox, I got my new threads and "searched" threads mixed up.
I'm trying to search to avoid a bunch of repeat posts, naturally. My bad, guys.
Rodan said:
um... wow...
Toot, are you even kind of serious? Get drunk faster and impress people with the strength?!? Come on man! Thats ridiculus!
Anybody who really knows beer knows that BELGIAN beer is exactly what you just spent a whole paragraph dissing.... and its one of the finest forms of brewing in my opinion!!!
Rock and Roll Brewer: A belgian beer book might help you to accomplish what your looking for, even if you arn't brewing belgian beer.
Sorry, I'm new to brewing and have been reading a LOT lately (1-2 hours a day, for the past 3-6 weeks). I was still not aware that Belgian Beers can use additional priming sugar, just prior to bottling, to increase the alcohol content. I didn't realize it could be done that way. Intuitively, and from everything I've read, it seems like it would be a recipe for disaster. I stand corrected!!! I guess that just means I have more reading to do, I suppose because I still don't understand how this could be done safely. So if anybody has some links that explains the process of safely upping the alcohol content during bottle-conditioning, I would be VERY interested because, frankly, I don't understand it.
And I wasn't dissing Belgian beers at all. But any old beer, with boosted alcohol, does not make a Belgian. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion and, no doubt, yours in more knowledgeable than mine, but IMHO, there is more to a Belgian beer than simply a high alcohol content.
It's my bad though. I was trying to say that it doesn't seem like a good idea to take a good batch of weak beer and gamble with it to make it stronger though an additional fermentation process. I know it's been done before, but it is far beyond not only my capabilities, but also my imagination at this time. And if the person asking the question were comfortable enough to do the procedure, I'd imagine he'd have more of an idea of how to go about, so I just assumed it wasn't a good idea. But, since apparently you
can bump up the alcohol level in the bottle, I guess that answers that question. I certainly have more reading to do on that subject.
Cheers!
Anyway, folks, I aplogize for this revival from the dead. :fro: