Gonna do a brewferm christmas ale...
Randy at the brew shop pretty much insists on adding a whole wack of corn sugar to the boil...to add some fermentables...is this necessary? harmful? helpful? Does it matter?
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question about adding sugar...
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sugar adds alcohol and nothing else, thinning a beer out. it's appropriate in some styles, but not most. i've heard of some folks using a _little_ sugar when doing extract batches, to help counter darker extracts that are often less fermentable, but it certainly wouldn't be considered an absolute, and definitely not a "whole whack" worth. if you're sticking with light/extra light dry extract and getting your colour and such from grains, there should be little reason for it.
if you want a bigger beer, scale up your recipe, don't just throw in sugar.
if you want a bigger beer, scale up your recipe, don't just throw in sugar.
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It's already a pretty big extract... the abv is supposed to end up at 7.5...It's a regular sized can but only makes 7 L as opposed to 23...by scaling up, do you mean less water?
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These instructions are ridiculous...
Brew
Primary - 1 wk
THEN BOTTLE w/ no priming sugar - 6/8 weeks!
Can I just have it in a secondary for a few weeks, then bottle with priming sugar?
Brew
Primary - 1 wk
THEN BOTTLE w/ no priming sugar - 6/8 weeks!
Can I just have it in a secondary for a few weeks, then bottle with priming sugar?
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Sounds like he would get along famously with most of the homebrew shop owners here in Regina!JeffPorter wrote:Randy at the brew shop pretty much insists on adding a whole wack of corn sugar to the boil...to add some fermentables...is this necessary? harmful? helpful? Does it matter?