~Botanist~
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Hello all, I hope you are all doing well today.
I am a beginner and need a little help/advice.
I started with a wine conc kit and a beer kit. The wine sg has been fine so far, but the beer I am a little worried about.
The beer was a chamomile wheat kit from my local brewstore. On the recipe it said the starting sg should be 1.047-1.050. My starting gravity was 1.020. The brew has fermented in the primary already, and I racked it into the secondary yesterday. When checking the sg during racking, it had dropped to 1.010, which my chart told me is equal to about 1.5% abv.
According to the og of the recipe, it should finish with ~5% abv, which I would much prefer to 1.3%.
My question is, is there a way to increase the abv by adding dextrose or something else before the last of the yeast die? I got the idea from Ed Worts Apfelwein recipe, so thanks Ed! I will also be making a batch of Apelwein in about 20 min
Any help is appreciated.
Be safe
~B~
I am a beginner and need a little help/advice.
I started with a wine conc kit and a beer kit. The wine sg has been fine so far, but the beer I am a little worried about.
The beer was a chamomile wheat kit from my local brewstore. On the recipe it said the starting sg should be 1.047-1.050. My starting gravity was 1.020. The brew has fermented in the primary already, and I racked it into the secondary yesterday. When checking the sg during racking, it had dropped to 1.010, which my chart told me is equal to about 1.5% abv.
According to the og of the recipe, it should finish with ~5% abv, which I would much prefer to 1.3%.
My question is, is there a way to increase the abv by adding dextrose or something else before the last of the yeast die? I got the idea from Ed Worts Apfelwein recipe, so thanks Ed! I will also be making a batch of Apelwein in about 20 min
Any help is appreciated.
Be safe
~B~