Danimal86
Well-Known Member
So i'm on a low carb diet so i've been missing beer like crazy. I found some beer satisfaction with Lagunitas Daytime and Dogfish Slightly Mighty (not as good), but i recently stopped off at a brewery (Moonraker in Auburn, Ca) to grab a couple cans for an upcoming trip where i'll be off the diet, and they had a watermelon mint hard seltzer. I talked with one of the workers, and asked him if its sweet at all, they said they dont add any additional sugars, but they add fruit puree so no guarantee about how much sugar/carbs are in there. I grabed some beer and a 4pk of the sider and off i went.
I have had hard seltzers in the past and they taste like soda water, a couple drops of flavoring, and some rubbing alcohol. The breweries hard seltzer was not like that, the flavoring was perfect and no cheap alcohol flavor, i dont know how to explain it, but it had a homebrew flavor to it on the backend. I'm thinking its because they actually ferment and not add alcohol.
So now i'm thinking about trying to brew a batch. I see that morebeer has a kit now, but i'm thinking that it shouldn't be difficult to just put something together.
I'm wondering if i go the fruit puree route, and add it either at boil, or the backend of fermentation, would the flavor stay but any sugars from the puree be converted?
I have had hard seltzers in the past and they taste like soda water, a couple drops of flavoring, and some rubbing alcohol. The breweries hard seltzer was not like that, the flavoring was perfect and no cheap alcohol flavor, i dont know how to explain it, but it had a homebrew flavor to it on the backend. I'm thinking its because they actually ferment and not add alcohol.
So now i'm thinking about trying to brew a batch. I see that morebeer has a kit now, but i'm thinking that it shouldn't be difficult to just put something together.
I'm wondering if i go the fruit puree route, and add it either at boil, or the backend of fermentation, would the flavor stay but any sugars from the puree be converted?