So I screwed up a pilsner I made a few months ago due to a C/F conversion issue (mashed at 64.5C instead of 69C) which left me with an OG of 1.033. Just measured my FG and came out to 1.005, so 3.6%. Far too low for a pilsner, though the flavor's nice. So I was thinking of doing a radler, specifically a grapefruit-style radler, but couldn't find anything definitive online. I'm looking for something with a bit of residual sweetness, and around 2-2.5%, which, if I'm making sense of the math in BeerSmith right here, I should be looking to dilute my (now remaining) 18L of beer with 7L of filler. Does anyone have any advice on this? Should I be using sweetened grapefruit juice? Unsweetened? I'm bottling, so should I be adding sugar at bottling? Pasteurizing the beer once it gets to a certain point of carbonation?
Any help would be appreciated-at this point my thought is to just add 7-8L of un- or lightly-sweetened grapefruit juice, perhaps a bit of extra bottling sugar, and let them sit at room temperature for a week before trying one. Once they're at an acceptable level of carbonation, I'll pasteurize to keep them from either getting too carbonated or dry. But any experience in this department would be awesome!
Any help would be appreciated-at this point my thought is to just add 7-8L of un- or lightly-sweetened grapefruit juice, perhaps a bit of extra bottling sugar, and let them sit at room temperature for a week before trying one. Once they're at an acceptable level of carbonation, I'll pasteurize to keep them from either getting too carbonated or dry. But any experience in this department would be awesome!
