Drebin138
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I’m going to be purchasing the nut brown ale extract kit from Northern Brewer pretty soon. The suggested yeast the kit comes with is US-04 but I’ve slready used that yeast and would like to try something different. Does anyone have any good suggestions as to a different strain I could use? I prefer dry yeast because I don’t really have the means to make a starter right now.
The abv of the kit is only around 4-4.5% so I am thinking of adding a pound of dry malt extract and a pound of corn sugar to boost the alcohol content. I was browsing around a bit and saw some have used brown sugar instead of corn sugar. If I did that do I need to buy a specific kind of brown sugar?
Finally, I wanted to add some honey to make a sort of honey nut brown. When would be the proper time to add honey? I would assume if I did it before fermentation is complete I wouldn’t get much flavor due to the sugar being gobbled up by the yeast. So then the question is how much honey should I add? It’s a 5 gallon batch so I was thinking a pound would suffice but I’ve never used honey in a brew so I’m not sure if that amount would be overpowering. I planned on going to a local orchard and buying some real local bee honey instead of using clover honey from the store.
I love brown ales and I don’t want to screw it up so I just wanna make sure my grand plans are good plans!
Quick side note: the guy at my local home brew shop told me not to buy from Northern Brewer because they are owned by Budweiser. Now I know they don’t make good beer but why is this a bad thing?
The abv of the kit is only around 4-4.5% so I am thinking of adding a pound of dry malt extract and a pound of corn sugar to boost the alcohol content. I was browsing around a bit and saw some have used brown sugar instead of corn sugar. If I did that do I need to buy a specific kind of brown sugar?
Finally, I wanted to add some honey to make a sort of honey nut brown. When would be the proper time to add honey? I would assume if I did it before fermentation is complete I wouldn’t get much flavor due to the sugar being gobbled up by the yeast. So then the question is how much honey should I add? It’s a 5 gallon batch so I was thinking a pound would suffice but I’ve never used honey in a brew so I’m not sure if that amount would be overpowering. I planned on going to a local orchard and buying some real local bee honey instead of using clover honey from the store.
I love brown ales and I don’t want to screw it up so I just wanna make sure my grand plans are good plans!
Quick side note: the guy at my local home brew shop told me not to buy from Northern Brewer because they are owned by Budweiser. Now I know they don’t make good beer but why is this a bad thing?