O hai,
I've been making honey wine for a while now and was hoping to start making beer as I've got hold of two 12 litre PET containers. I was wondering if I could use the same recipe I use for my wine as for the beer with the addition of hops/which hops to use/when to add the hops/which yeast to use/anything else I ought to know. Here's the recipe I use for honey wine:
For 1 Gallon
Ingredients:
-2 tsp tea
-around 20-30 raisins
-Rind and juice of 1 lemon/lime
-1tsp super wine yeast (for boiling)
-Around 1250 grams honey
-under 1/2 tsp Llalvin D47
-1tsp DAP
-Fruit (if making melomel)
Method:
-Boil tea, raisins, juice & rind, super wine yeast and fruit for 10-20 minutes
-Let cool and add honey once warm and keep on very low heat for around 20 minutes (or I usually just add the honey when the mix is not boiling but hot to touch and let cool as this usually takes around 20 minutes anyway)
-Pitch into demijohn once near room temperature and add Llalvin D47 and DAP
-Allow to bubble for around 5 days
-Rack into new demijohn
- once no more bubbling, rack again, leave to settle for a day or so and bottle
I use the super wine yeast because I read somewhere that dead yeasts are good food for the Llalvin yeast and I use DAP because I read that honey doesn't have all the right bits (nitrogen, I think) that the yeast needs.
If I wanted to make a beer with this recipe, I suppose I would have to change the yeast I use (which is good because D47 takes ages to age...) and add hops but I've never brewed beer before so any input is appreciated.
Kthx
I've been making honey wine for a while now and was hoping to start making beer as I've got hold of two 12 litre PET containers. I was wondering if I could use the same recipe I use for my wine as for the beer with the addition of hops/which hops to use/when to add the hops/which yeast to use/anything else I ought to know. Here's the recipe I use for honey wine:
For 1 Gallon
Ingredients:
-2 tsp tea
-around 20-30 raisins
-Rind and juice of 1 lemon/lime
-1tsp super wine yeast (for boiling)
-Around 1250 grams honey
-under 1/2 tsp Llalvin D47
-1tsp DAP
-Fruit (if making melomel)
Method:
-Boil tea, raisins, juice & rind, super wine yeast and fruit for 10-20 minutes
-Let cool and add honey once warm and keep on very low heat for around 20 minutes (or I usually just add the honey when the mix is not boiling but hot to touch and let cool as this usually takes around 20 minutes anyway)
-Pitch into demijohn once near room temperature and add Llalvin D47 and DAP
-Allow to bubble for around 5 days
-Rack into new demijohn
- once no more bubbling, rack again, leave to settle for a day or so and bottle
I use the super wine yeast because I read somewhere that dead yeasts are good food for the Llalvin yeast and I use DAP because I read that honey doesn't have all the right bits (nitrogen, I think) that the yeast needs.
If I wanted to make a beer with this recipe, I suppose I would have to change the yeast I use (which is good because D47 takes ages to age...) and add hops but I've never brewed beer before so any input is appreciated.
Kthx