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After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I ... (f.cz)
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After like 3 years I was again brewing beer just for fun and not 2000l batch as my job or trying something on this small scale for my job (because I had a time and got the ingredients for free).It is really experimental brew. I put 3,5l of grape juice (I think it is Veltlín variety) and will add some cherries there too. So let's see how it will end up.#homebrewing @homebrewing

My brewing setup, 2 big pots one above the other with wort pouring to the lower one.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was just reading an 1829 recipe book to help me sleep and it happened to have 30 ways to make raisin wine. Discard sleep mission, acquire raisin wine hyperfixation. EDIT: "has happens"

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nice setup!

    My neighbour just got too large grapes crop this year and I took some (about a month ago). Juiced them (never tried this before), the juice was 1040, bumped it with honey to 1120 or so, pitched mead yeast, thus now I'm running a similar experiment!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    This brew is only about the fruit. The beer is just simple decoction with Pilsen and Münich malts (~50/50) and just SAAZ hops, I call it leftover ALE just what was left from other brews. After I added the juice it got to 1045 OG so it isn't even that strong.

    It is bit strange right now for me because I got new hydrometer that is calibrated to density, but until now I mainly used °Bx/°P units and even got portable refractometer with both units so something I measured in one and some with other... The juice was ~15°Bx

    Edit: I mean infusion not decoction

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Refractometers start to be really off once you have fruit juice and ongoing fermentation. I use mine only to see if reading is changing over time, absolute value is easily off by 20-30 g/L

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I know, it is really handy for checking OG then it gets skewed by alcohol. For bottling I use my hydrometer to be sure, I just don't want bombs.

    When you measure often you can correct it, but for me it isn't worth it.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Congrats!

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    [+] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    @GuloGulo @homebrewing to snad NEE!Pivní pálenka je fakt nic moc. Myslím že jsme to udělali jen jednou když se něco fakt hodně nepovedlo a pak jsme to používali na mytí oken.

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