user 214470
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Long story short I have Icelandic Doppelbock clone in secondary that failed to reach the desired FG (the beer is really fully fermented but with higher FG so let's omit the fermentation revival options - they've been tried btw). The FG is 1.019 instead of 1.014, ended up a little sweet but what the hell..
So I have 8 gallons of 6% ABV instead of recipe's 6.6%. To boost the ABV to 6.6% I would have to add 18oz of 40% ABV bourbon. That would result in 1.8% of all beer being bourbon. The question is - wouldn't this be too much / overpowering? Maybe 50/50 bourbon/vodka?
I want to add bourbon because the original beer description actually says "whisky/bourbon taste notes", so I thought adding bourbon might be not that bad of an idea, so I can do two kills in one shot.
P.S. The final projected ABV should be around 6.8% as the priming sugar should add another ~0.2%.
So I have 8 gallons of 6% ABV instead of recipe's 6.6%. To boost the ABV to 6.6% I would have to add 18oz of 40% ABV bourbon. That would result in 1.8% of all beer being bourbon. The question is - wouldn't this be too much / overpowering? Maybe 50/50 bourbon/vodka?
I want to add bourbon because the original beer description actually says "whisky/bourbon taste notes", so I thought adding bourbon might be not that bad of an idea, so I can do two kills in one shot.
P.S. The final projected ABV should be around 6.8% as the priming sugar should add another ~0.2%.