Yo yo , Alcamahol !!!

[ifearnothing0]

How do I up my abv !?!? ... All of my 6 batches have ended tasting pretty dope but they have all lacked abv ... I heard about adding reg sugar but adding a whole pound to my 3 gallon kettle sounds insane .... Anybody got any pointer ?

 

[Yooper]

Buy a pint of Everclear, and add it to your beer when bottling, or when drinking it.

 

[danorocks17]

Moar boooooze!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[annasdadhockey]

I love it when my batches taste pretty dope.

 

[nukebrewer]

Buy a pint of Everclear, and add it to your beer when bottling, or when drinking it.

Blech! I can't imagine that being good. I've got a feeling that advice was a bit on the tongue in cheek side. If so, I agree with you. We don't brew our own to get the ABV up. We brew our own because we enjoy the experience of brewing and tasting the fruits of our labor. High ABV is appropriate with some styles, but if your motivating factor in brewing is high ABV, you might as well get into distilling, which we don't talk about here.

 

[kaboom133]

We can't buy everclear in PA and everclear is dope. I'm bummin yo.


As far as adding more alcohol, add sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, brown sugar, corn syrup, dme, lme, fruit, malt, corn, oats, barley, wheat, or candy bars depending on the beer style.

 

[Yooper]

Alcamahol is dope, and Everclear is dope. And yo yo we could roll.

Or for a novel idea, someone could design a beer from the beginning to be a rich malty high ABV craft beer. It would taste great, be well made, and be a wonderful beer to drink.

But, a pound or three of sugar would work, too, but it would take longer. We be in a big hurry for dope beer with much alcamahol and flavor, quality, balance, and aroma don't matter. We don't care about ur forum where you consider quality. We just wantz to be druck, u know?

In that case, a pint of Everclear is the best course of action. Maybe more, if a real man wants a real buzz.

 

[IffyG]

High ABV is appropriate with some styles, but if your motivating factor in brewing is high ABV, you might as well get into distilling, which we don't talk about here.

Or just buy some bud light and cheap vodka. It would probably end up being cheaper than brewing your own rocket fuel...

 

[lumpher]

u mean da shiyut u brew ain't da shiyut? yuz cud always add some vodka, yo

 

[Caucasian]

We can't buy everclear in PA and everclear is dope. I'm bummin yo.

As far as adding more alcohol, add sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, brown sugar, corn syrup, dme, lme, fruit, malt, corn, oats, barley, wheat, or candy bars depending on the beer style.

Another great thing we can't get in pa!!!! I guess i'll have to make my own just like deschuttes beers. Who has an everclear clone recipe.

 

[brewingmeister]

Yo yoops u on the right track homes. Toss dat suga in there if yous got it funking up yo dresser. It'll be straight but if you don't got tha time that everclear is fo real though.

 

[ifearnothing0]

God damn lol ... I wasn't looking to spike my homebrew with cheap nasty waster sauce hahaha .. But I'm also not trying to brew my own beer and not get drunk when I want to ! ... I was jus looking for a point or 2... I jus drank 5 of my BrewersBest imperial pale ales and almost no fuzziness

 

[brewingmeister]

Well learn to type English...you know with sentences, grammar, and spelling.

Could be any number of things...from water dilution, adding more base grains, mash temp, to adding some type of sugar. Maybe start with your process.

 

[amandabab]

 

[bottlebomber]

My Alcamahol is not flamenting into ABV. Not dope.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

flamenting

hahhaha. I forgot about that post.

 

[worksnorth]

Nice!

 

[lumpher]

i remember that "airplane" ref.. still makes me laugh

God damn lol ... I wasn't looking to spike my homebrew with cheap nasty waster sauce hahaha .. But I'm also not trying to brew my own beer and not get drunk when I want to ! ... I was jus looking for a point or 2... I jus drank 5 of my BrewersBest imperial pale ales and almost no fuzziness

now.. ask your question in english

 

[HeavyKettleBrewing]

God damn lol ... I wasn't looking to spike my homebrew with cheap nasty waster sauce hahaha .. But I'm also not trying to brew my own beer and not get drunk when I want to ! ... I was jus looking for a point or 2... I jus drank 5 of my BrewersBest imperial pale ales and almost no fuzziness

Use peaches to increase the fuzzy units.

 

[bottlebomber]

..

 

[Zamial]

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[ifearnothing0]

I usually have about 3 gallons in my boil kettle , and then top it off with a few extra to make it 5 gallons ... How much sugar can I add to up the abv without distorting the flavor

 

[ifearnothing0]

Top it off in the ferm bucket / carboy that is *

 

[ifearnothing0]

And by the way that was English enough sir , ease back

 

[amandabab]

I usually have about 3 gallons in my boil kettle , and then top it off with a few extra to make it 5 gallons ... How much sugar can I add to up the abv without distorting the flavor

you could add 1lb or so. extract would be better though.
it depends on what your recipe is.
I like 5-7lbs of extract in my lighter beers. If your doing can kits with 3.3lb cans you might want to use 2.
one of my house session beers has 4lbs of DME and 1.5lbs rice extract and it was formulated for a 3 gallon boil 5 gallon batch.

 

[bja]

And by the way that was English enough sir , ease back

English enough? Only if you consider illiteracy normal.

 

[SoupNazi]

This thread is mad phat dope, yo!

 

[Yooper]

I usually have about 3 gallons in my boil kettle , and then top it off with a few extra to make it 5 gallons ... How much sugar can I add to up the abv without distorting the flavor

you could add 1lb or so. extract would be better though.
it depends on what your recipe is.
I like 5-7lbs of extract in my lighter beers. If your doing can kits with 3.3lb cans you might want to use 2.
one of my house session beers has 4lbs of DME and 1.5lbs rice extract and it was formulated for a 3 gallon boil 5 gallon batch.

Yes, if you're making a 5 gallon batch, with as an example an original gravity of 1.050 or so, you could probably add a pound or so of sugar to the boil. Aside from maybe a thinner bodied beer, you wouldn't have much flavor impact.

I'd start with a little bit "bigger" recipe from the beginning like amandabad mentioned. Two cans of malt extract, increasing the hops (if not using prehopped extract), and then a pound of sugar would give you about a 6% ABV beer.

If you wanted to go with a higher ABV than that, then more malt extract would be needed and of course more hops if not using prehopped extract.

An alternative would be to find a good recipe or a good kit and make a beer that you'd really like. Since fall is here, I'd think of a big rich Imperial Stout or something like that. If you've ever seen the hundreds and hundreds of kits available at a place like austinhomebrew.com, you know you could find exactly what you are looking for, with great taste as well.

I really like this one, as an example: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?products_id=13334

 

[Homercidal]

Yes, if you're making a 5 gallon batch, with as an example an original gravity of 1.050 or so, you could probably add a pound or so of sugar to the boil. Aside from maybe a thinner bodied beer, you wouldn't have much flavor impact.

I'd start with a little bit "bigger" recipe from the beginning like amandabad mentioned. Two cans of malt extract, increasing the hops (if not using prehopped extract), and then a pound of sugar would give you about a 6% ABV beer.

If you wanted to go with a higher ABV than that, then more malt extract would be needed and of course more hops if not using prehopped extract.

An alternative would be to find a good recipe or a good kit and make a beer that you'd really like. Since fall is here, I'd think of a big rich Imperial Stout or something like that. If you've ever seen the hundreds and hundreds of kits available at a place like austinhomebrew.com, you know you could find exactly what you are looking for, with great taste as well.

I really like this one, as an example: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?products_id=13334

Yooper has the straight dope, yo!

For reelz, you can make a bigger beer by adding more fermentable (the stuff that yeast turn into alcamahol). It's quite simple. But! I would add sugar AND some extract (or grain, if you brew AG) because as Yooper says, just sugar might thin out the body. And just extract might make it too malty.

There are online calculators that can tell you what the change in ABV will be if you add fermentables. So you can know ahead of time how much alcamahol you are going to get.

I personally don't have an interest in making a higher ABV for the sake of getting stoned. I'd be interested in making a good-tasting high ABV beer for the technical challenge, but that would be something in the range of 15-21%. An 8-12% beer would not be hard to do at all.

 

[ktblunden]

If them brewz be dope, then drink them dope brewz and get yo crunk on wif likker.

That's enough of that. Seriously, if your beers are coming out tasty then enjoy your tasty beers. Don't try to alter them just to get more ABV out of them. If you want higher ABV beers that still taste good, then look at different recipes like Yoop and Amanda said. Trying to bump up the gravity on a recipe that's balanced already is going to end up tasting off regardless. There are a lot of styles out there that balance alcohol, hops, and malt.