replacing basic yeast with wine yeast
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Wine yeast eat different sugars than ale and lager yeasts. If you want a higher abv, add corn sugar, more dme/lme, or a yeast with a higher attenuation. You can boil longer to get rid of some of the water. You can also mash at a lower temp. If you use only wine yeast, you may not like the result. There are many ways to increase abv, but using wine yeast isn't the best way.
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bellhp
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What exactly is your " basic yeast" ?
sadly the yeast
the yeast from the single hop ipa from craft a brew. I thought I'd use the ec-1118 for higher abv. I bought like ten packets from amazon before I even knew what I was doing. ty, cheers
I’d save the ec1118 for wine, mead or cider and buy some beer yeast for your beer. I don’t believe ec1118 will ferment the sugars created from a barely/grain mash.
How high of an OG are you planning to make? There are lots of high gravity beer yeast available.
How high of an OG are you planning to make? There are lots of high gravity beer yeast available.
sorry I don't know the og, I just want a higher abv in general. I understand I'll need more sugars for stronger yeast and abv? I'm very green in brewing, I just started so I bought alot of yeast that I'm not sure I will be using in the near future. I just bought the last wyeast 1388 on amazon, or the listings last. at the moment out of money for awhile. do you guys have a discord for real time advice? thank you in advance and cheers
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In beer, it's rarely the yeast's attenuation limit that stops the production of alcohol. Adding a small portion of sugar into the boil is enough to boost the ABV without any yeast changes.
bellhp
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Basic rule #1 ... RDWHAHB (relax don't worry have a homebrew)
Sounds like you bought a kit ...
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Don't try to reinvent the wheel though on the yeast ... use what came in the kit or buy good dry ale yeast such as muntons Amazon.com: Munton's Ale Yeast, 6g - 10-Pack : Grocery & Gourmet Food which is cheap but good, or S-05 , Nottingham etc. these are half the cost of liquid yeast and will make the beer you want without off flavors .
P.S. Here's what you do with that 1388 Bray's One Month Mead you're welcome.
Sounds like you bought a kit ...
... and you want to make it stronger and do some experimentation ?
Simplest way to add ABV to a kit... As Bobby suggested is to add sugar ... that's going to be either more dry malt extract as came in your kit or cheaper option is corn sugar ... the same corn sugar that came with the kit as "priming sugar" . I think 1 cup added to your 1 gallon kit will get you where you want to be. When I started brewing most kits came with 3.3lbs of liquid extract to make a 5 gallon batch ... my normal routine was to add 6 cups corn sugar to boost the alcohol and get more bang for the buck ( I was also drinking beer out of funnels then)
.Don't try to reinvent the wheel though on the yeast ... use what came in the kit or buy good dry ale yeast such as muntons Amazon.com: Munton's Ale Yeast, 6g - 10-Pack : Grocery & Gourmet Food which is cheap but good, or S-05 , Nottingham etc. these are half the cost of liquid yeast and will make the beer you want without off flavors .
P.S. Here's what you do with that 1388 Bray's One Month Mead you're welcome.
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There is one wine yeast (that I know of, maybe there are a *few* others) that work for making beer. K1V-1116. I used it 2 months ago in a Belgian dubbel. But you might not like its flavor profile in an IPA. Using a different yeast probably won't give you more alcohol; using a champagne yeast like EC-1118 will probably give you less alcohol because it can only eat simple sugars (but it eats those with a vengeance)
Using the champagne yeast and adding a little sugar might be interesting, but I don't recommend it for your first try
Goto Aldi or Walmart and buy a few jugs of cheap apple juice. Add a packet of your '1118 to that, without any sugar or yeast nutrients, and see what you get. (Usually I do add yeast nutrients to apple juice, but I don't use 1118 because it ferments so fast)
Good luck!
Using the champagne yeast and adding a little sugar might be interesting, but I don't recommend it for your first try
Goto Aldi or Walmart and buy a few jugs of cheap apple juice. Add a packet of your '1118 to that, without any sugar or yeast nutrients, and see what you get. (Usually I do add yeast nutrients to apple juice, but I don't use 1118 because it ferments so fast)
Good luck!
^^^ yes
Our go to house cider is 5gal store bought juice, 1/2 pound brown sugar and ec-1118.
Muntons ale yeast from Amazon is a good choice.
Additionally, if in the US and if just need beer yeast buy dry yeast from labelpeelers.com. No shipping charges because they put it in an envelope and send it through the mail.
I LOVE Nottingham dry yeast. I use it for 90% of the ales I brew. It fermented a Russian imperial stout to 12% abv without any fussiness.
Well don't waste all that ec-1118 on crappy ciders!
Since you seem eager to make some high octane beer (for which you should use a "normal" ale yeast), you'll probably find that once you get up past 10% abv, it becomes difficult, and takes a really long time to bottle carbonate. So, once you're high abv beer has finished fermenting, adding priming sugar and this wine yeast can get the job done.
Since you seem eager to make some high octane beer (for which you should use a "normal" ale yeast), you'll probably find that once you get up past 10% abv, it becomes difficult, and takes a really long time to bottle carbonate. So, once you're high abv beer has finished fermenting, adding priming sugar and this wine yeast can get the job done.
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