I received one of those Mr. Beer kits for Christmas, and I'm excited to try it.
The kit my girlfriend bought unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, because it's hard to disappoint low expectations) contains their "American Light Lager" malt mix. I'm expecting Budweiser--not my ideal type of beer. Since Mr. Beer uses the add-table-sugar-to-the-bottle conditioning method, I thought about adding some sort of food-grade essential citrus oil to some of the bottles as an experiment. The idea would be to add a drop to four bottles after the fermentation stage and see how it turns out.
Thoughts? Maybe it's not a good idea to experiment on the first batch, but I thought it might be OK if I only tried this on half of the bottles. Also, I've never heard of citrus with a light lager before.
After reading some of the forums, I've also thought about adding corn sugar instead of table sugar to half of the bottles as a second experiment.
The kit my girlfriend bought unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, because it's hard to disappoint low expectations) contains their "American Light Lager" malt mix. I'm expecting Budweiser--not my ideal type of beer. Since Mr. Beer uses the add-table-sugar-to-the-bottle conditioning method, I thought about adding some sort of food-grade essential citrus oil to some of the bottles as an experiment. The idea would be to add a drop to four bottles after the fermentation stage and see how it turns out.
Thoughts? Maybe it's not a good idea to experiment on the first batch, but I thought it might be OK if I only tried this on half of the bottles. Also, I've never heard of citrus with a light lager before.
After reading some of the forums, I've also thought about adding corn sugar instead of table sugar to half of the bottles as a second experiment.