Hello,
I just bough the norther brewer deluxe kit and went through the brew process (for my first time) with a buddy of mine. After watching the video online which the company posts as a tutorial, we became confused, as the video showed the kit coming with dry malt, but the kit did not.
However, the kit did come with corn sugar(5oz). My buddy looked it up and it seemed like corn sugar could be used as a substitute for dry malt. Long story short, we put it in with the 6lbs of wet malt. Later on, we ended up added another 3lbs of wet malt (which in hindsite was probably the substitute go for the dry malt which wasn’t with the kit).
Once we got to the end, we realized that we had used the priming sugar we needed for bottling day.
My question for the community is: Did we mess up our brew? The beer seems to still be fermenting. Will it just end up way more alcoholic (as there is more sugar)? Should we still get more priming sugar for bottling day? Any other suggestions?
I apologize in advance for anything I might have just said that was wrong/didn’t make sense. Any advice would be welcome!
Thanks.
I just bough the norther brewer deluxe kit and went through the brew process (for my first time) with a buddy of mine. After watching the video online which the company posts as a tutorial, we became confused, as the video showed the kit coming with dry malt, but the kit did not.
However, the kit did come with corn sugar(5oz). My buddy looked it up and it seemed like corn sugar could be used as a substitute for dry malt. Long story short, we put it in with the 6lbs of wet malt. Later on, we ended up added another 3lbs of wet malt (which in hindsite was probably the substitute go for the dry malt which wasn’t with the kit).
Once we got to the end, we realized that we had used the priming sugar we needed for bottling day.
My question for the community is: Did we mess up our brew? The beer seems to still be fermenting. Will it just end up way more alcoholic (as there is more sugar)? Should we still get more priming sugar for bottling day? Any other suggestions?
I apologize in advance for anything I might have just said that was wrong/didn’t make sense. Any advice would be welcome!
Thanks.
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