This month photo for this regular discussion thread is from my summer trip, I visited few craft brewerys and tasted local beers.
As usual share whatever brewing related - questions, recipes, successes, bad batches…
I will be away for some time (~6 months) but should be reachable. I will travel through Europe (Spain, France, Portugal, Germany,…) when I post about this in relevant community I will link it here. Keep it chill here so I don’t have to worry on road.
My last few brews turned out amazing and I am glad that I will be away and they will have time to age. Otherwise I would have drink them in few months, someone told me that ciders are best after 1-2 years of aging so finally it may get the chance to survive that long.
egrets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I did a lazy ginger beer over Christmas, but I wanted it vegan and it didn’t clear in time through an extended cold crash. I put it in a plastic keg with CO2 shortly after Christmas, but I was worried about the haziness so I didn’t share it for New Years either.
I used quite a lot of sugar and it fermented dry, but I didn’t bother checking the OG, so I have no idea how strong it is (though I’d guess it’s 6% or so).
End result: while most people I know are attempting Dry January, I’m drinking a lot of ginger beer.
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It is the taste that counts!
There is one simple solution for hazy brews - don’t use glass mugs. But to be fair I completely get it. I usually don’t aim at clear brews because I know that it is finicky, enzymes, cold crash, long aging… it needs some technique and I usually don’t worry about that.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, I can’t get hung up on haze, got too much life to live.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sounds cool, but isn’t all beer vegan?
SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Guinness isn’t (or didn’t use to be - not sure now tbf). They used isinglass - fish bladder - to clarify the brew.
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’d argue that with all that killing of single cell life forms, no beer could ever be vegan.