high alcohol beer NO TASTE

[Firebat138]

Ok... Follow me here... lol

First... I am now officially a brewer at a local brewery in my area... wahoooooo

But... back to the matter at hand. We want to brew a very high alcohol beer with no taste... Reason you say? Our license does not allow for us to serve mixed drinks and a lot of customers on the way to the beach always ask.... So we thought it would be cool to do something with beer, perhaps an orangy beer to make orange crushes... etc... any thoughts on a grain bill, and also... what yeast do you think... any suggestions are welcome..

thanx

 

[conneryis007]

sugar water and san diego super yeast!

 

[Hello]

Well personally I think the last thing I'd want is a high ABV beer at the beach. Mostly due to the sun exposure and how drunk you can get. BUT, what you want sounds terrible. Why would a brewery want their name on swill? Your license allows you to brew beers but does it allow you to make cider? If so, do that.

Otherwise, brew up a high ABV pilsner with some orange zest and use that SD super yeast or Denny's 50.

 

[Firebat138]

not my idea.... but it wouldnt be beer... but something you mix with something... yeah... yuck... but they want us to try... dont think we can make cider... and it would have to be mostly grain i assume correct?

thanx

 

[MVKTR2]

It seems you're trying to make a high abv mixer but beer just isn't conducive to that approach (in general). I'd think a beer brewed to go specifically in a raddler perhaps marketed as 'Summer Raddler - With handmade lemonade' could be a real boom. Just about the best summer beer I've ever experienced has been Berliner Weisse made via the sour mash technique. It mixes very well with sweet syrups like grenadine or even an orange reduction. Not hard at all to figure out a way of marketing Orange, Pomegranite, Lemon/Lime, & Blackberry drinks based on this method. They could also be advertised as 'light/low cal' options due to the low alcohol content generally associated with berliner weisse.

 

[Firebat138]

thats a freakin fabulous idea.....

 

[kh54s10]

Tons of base malt, minimal hops and hope for the best! Sounds awful to me.......

 

[jcorn]

Personally I think that the fermented lemonade idea would be best. It is something I was wanting to try to brew this summer for pool parties. I also think fermented cranberry juice would be great! Maybe even a little dme in it or corn sugar to boost abv.

 

[jrgtr42]

Of course something like this CAN be done, but count me among those who ask why.
I presume it has something to do with people who want Bud Light, but want to seem they're sophisticated by drinking the local craft beer.
How high alcohol are you looking for? 6%? 10%? 20%?
I would think that a bill of some base malt, probably 6-row, a ton of adjuncts of corn, rice or some such, and a minimal hop bill, with appropriate high-alcohol yeast should do it.

 

[heckler73]

http://www.whistlerbeer.com/beers/paradise-valley-grapefruit-ale/

this also goes great on a hot summer day. NO TASTE just sound awfully wrong.

 

[uatuba]

Could you not just...erm...apply for a liquor license?


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[Jogurt]

The OP question makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Rice wine.

 

[fuelish]

Ok... Follow me here...

...can't quite...

We want to brew a very high alcohol beer with no taste... So we thought it would be cool to do something with beer, perhaps an orangy beer to make orange crushes...

????? You want "no taste," then state "orangy beer" ....???? Just make beer, let 'em go to a bar if they want something else...

 

[CastleHollow]

First... I am now officially a brewer at a local brewery in my area... wahoooooo

But... back to the matter at hand. We want to brew a very high alcohol beer with no taste...

Sounds like a good reason to keep driving through Millsboro to that real brewery up in Milton.

 

[b-boy]

Sounds like your customers want Bud Lite Lime.

 

[Cyclman]

Apfelwein, goes great with other sweet mixers, and you can get it pretty high ABV.

 

[pennyloaf]

I don't get what is so hard to understand. My friends and I don't always want to drink the same thing - much less a car full of people at the beach.

The first think I would ask is if you can make wine.

I would think high % apple wine, sugar water, and hard lemonade (similar to sugar water)

Can you freeze concentrate?

 

[fearwig]

High alcohol tolerance, clean yeast, 50% sugar adjunct, few to no hops, high carbonation. Won't taste good by itself, but you're mixing it with orange soda, so...

Alcohol isn't hard to make, beer is a little more work.

But yes, your ABV is going to be the limitation here. What you really want is wine. If you aren't allowed to make wine, you're still going to run into complications based on your municipality's definition of wine, if you get the ABV up high enough.

 

[Firebat138]

well... i should have just not asked if i was gonna get the "WHY" " I Dont understand???" lol But hey... thanx for the input to those who get it... No... u cant apply for another type of license... we can make as much beer as we want... no limitations... so thats why... and when i said no taste... well... of course its gonna have taste... but the idea was many customers have asked for this and we thought it would be a good idea... But keep driving to Milton... They are awesome... our little area has tons of great breweries and we all help each other out...

Nah.. cant make wine either... but I got some good ideas from here. Thanx all

 

[Firebat138]

Great idea... not sure on the freezing... but we r checking into it... thanx

I don't get what is so hard to understand. My friends and I don't always want to drink the same thing - much less a car full of people at the beach.

The first think I would ask is if you can make wine.

I would think high % apple wine, sugar water, and hard lemonade (similar to sugar water)

Can you freeze concentrate?

 

[jro238]

Sounds like some nice, yummy colt 45 to me...

how much alcohol are you wanting in this stuff?

 

[fearwig]

If you can't make wine but want high ABV beer you should check into the municipal or state definition of wine and beer. If it's about requiring some proportion to be composed of grains, you have a lot of options. If it's about ABV, not so much.

Cider, for instance, is really basically wine (fermented juice)--but you can probably make cider. Probably you have to keep it under a certain ABV. Or maybe they just require you to call it cider.

 

[pennyloaf]

The other thing is i've been to germany several times and they have beer mixed with coke or lemonade, tasted quite good too. Not like beer but that is what you are going for right?

 

[Mike_kever_kombi]

26 beer "cocktail" recipes

http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/drinks-that-prove-mixing-beer-cocktails-is-a-great-idea?s=mobile

 

[jamursch]

I've seen people making something called Skeeter Pee or something like that? It's basically what someone above said, sugar water and yeast. I've considered giving it a try.

 

[DennisinIowa]

Just made a Midwest kit Lawnmower de Saison added booster sugar and used wlp670 farmhouse. Fg 1.003 I'm hoping it will bottle condition some flavor. Just a fun experiment.
Dennis

 

[gcdowd]

Anyone else think OP is 15?

 

[ProfessorWoland]

Anyone else think OP is 15?

I was thinking the exact same thing. The use of ellipsis rather than correct punctuation usual means the poster is a youngster.

The story doesn't seem very real either.


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[uatuba]

I'm not positive that a 15 year old would realize there were different types of licenses.


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