hello everyone
i live in a "dry" country and i been making beer for a number of years now from n/a beers if you can call it that cause they don't actually ferment them they just make the wort, carbonate it and then bottle it. although they make it with real malt and hops (not extracts) but because it will not gonna be fermented they make it with low sugar levels. the brand im using has around 20gr per liter (written in the back of the bottle not sure if its accurate). so if you ferment that you will get around 1% abv which sucks so to make it more i add around 70-80 gr of white sugar per liter to make it around 5-6%.
but the taste...is easy to drink it and it goes down smoothly but its feels really dry and thin and doesn't have any mouthfeel. i wasn't really concern with the taste (we mostly chugg it in some corner or someone car ) until recently my buddy got me a box of heineken cans as a gift. that was game changer man i never knew what real beer taste like and i really enjoyed it while it last. after i drink all of it and had to go back to my own stuff i was like wtf is this i am not drinking this is terrible sooo thats why am here sorry for boring you with the long post but do you guys any have suggestion to make it better???
keep in mind that i cant boil stuff more then a 2-3 of liters (small stove and i dont have big pots) but i have access to hops (but not a lot cause its expensive) roasted barley and i might get my hands on some home made malt maybe even on some of those dark chocolatey ones if i am lucky
much appreciated
i live in a "dry" country and i been making beer for a number of years now from n/a beers if you can call it that cause they don't actually ferment them they just make the wort, carbonate it and then bottle it. although they make it with real malt and hops (not extracts) but because it will not gonna be fermented they make it with low sugar levels. the brand im using has around 20gr per liter (written in the back of the bottle not sure if its accurate). so if you ferment that you will get around 1% abv which sucks so to make it more i add around 70-80 gr of white sugar per liter to make it around 5-6%.
but the taste...is easy to drink it and it goes down smoothly but its feels really dry and thin and doesn't have any mouthfeel. i wasn't really concern with the taste (we mostly chugg it in some corner or someone car ) until recently my buddy got me a box of heineken cans as a gift. that was game changer man i never knew what real beer taste like and i really enjoyed it while it last. after i drink all of it and had to go back to my own stuff i was like wtf is this i am not drinking this is terrible sooo thats why am here sorry for boring you with the long post but do you guys any have suggestion to make it better???
keep in mind that i cant boil stuff more then a 2-3 of liters (small stove and i dont have big pots) but i have access to hops (but not a lot cause its expensive) roasted barley and i might get my hands on some home made malt maybe even on some of those dark chocolatey ones if i am lucky
much appreciated