Topic: Booze and Brew: The Homebrewing Topic

[Rysworld]

I'm not sure! This is a bit of an experiment, I've done a cursory search and banana is not very popular in the homebrew space. Maybe because it floats and is a mold risk, although I didn't get any fuzz. But if it is just a pineapple beer then that will be fine.

[PatMan33]

I never considered the buoyancy aspect of the whole thing. That's a good point.

[PatMan33]

Speaking of adult beverages, how's things in the lab?

[Rysworld]

Beer's bottled. Looks beery tastes beery. EH. Not fruity!

Mostly given away. People say it's good, but most people do if you give them free beer.

Got the stuff to make a repeat of Umbral Brew, that pomegranate blueberry cider from a while ago, but a 3-gallon batch of it. Expect that soon.

[PatMan33]

Bummer that the fruity flavor did not turn out. Any idea where the issue occurred and how to fix it?

[Rysworld]

I might have just needed more of it, or I might need to put the fruit additions later in the process, where fermentation won't affect the flavor so much. Hard to say. It's not even bad I was just being a bitch tbh. It tastes very like... normal. Like if you got some low-to-mid price beer you hadn't heard of before, you wouldn't be surprised if it was the taste of Island Milk in there.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/821598266801520670/20210316_211750.jpg

This is the stuff I'm doing right now. No big recipe/picpost because this is a repeat of my favorite recipe so far- "Umbral Brew", the blueberry pomegranate cider from the dual batch I made a while ago. I figured after an experiment that didn't go my way, I might as well make something I'm confident I'll like. I think I might go for another mead or a wine next- some other experiment in a different vein. Maybe something with berries.

[PatMan33]

Umbral Brew?

Put Bayonetta on the bottle and pray Nintendo doesn't sue since they more or less own Bayo now.

[Rysworld]

Bottled!

Transfer back to bigger container:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117356291883048/20210420_094257.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117395580321812/20210420_100230.jpg

Clean bottles:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117357256704010/20210420_095558.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117395069009980/20210420_095934.jpg

Bottling:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117519198388265/20210420_100456.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834117520330850324/20210420_102356.jpg

Capping:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834118268470034494/20210420_102633.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834118269136273478/20210420_102746.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834118843093221416/20210420_103003.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834119520812793926/20210420_103251.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834119965904863273/20210420_103439.jpg

And the color from the sample I took:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/834121928360460298/20210420_104207.jpg


Skews slightly fruitier and sweeter than the last time I made this- either down to different temps while it was fermenting or the fact that I used a different brand of honey. Hard to say. I should get a lagering fridge.

Changing jobs right now and my schedule is generally hectic so not sure when I'm going to start another batch... gimme a month, maybe.

[PatMan33]

I love both your zig-zag tablecloths and the congruous bottling. @_@

[Rysworld]

Uh oh... somehow I got back on my bull****.

I'm thinking lower abv (5-8), strawberry, sparkling, sweet.

[PatMan33]

Never get off that horse! It is a good hobby.

[Rysworld]

I already have the carboys and tubes. I'm in the **** now.

[Rysworld]

Sparkling strawberry mead is a go. Ten pounds of strawberries, six pounds of honey, three gallons of water, and a packet of K1-V1116. This will be middling abv- somewhere between 8 and 9 percent.

Ingredients:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844819032594841640/Resized_20210519_225039.jpeg

Sanitizing strawbs:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844819032594841640/Resized_20210519_225039.jpeg

Pouring honey:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844847648510705674/Resized_20210519_233445.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844847648786612224/Resized_20210519_233452.jpeg

Gravity, yeast hydration, and a good picture in-bucket:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844847675673542676/Resized_20210519_234214.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844847675961770004/Resized_20210519_234629.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614896471627792446/844847676368486450/Resized_20210519_235414.jpeg


Definitely one of the nicer-smelling brews I've made so far. I had a strawberry ale from Gelson's recently that was so tasty I had to make something similarish.

[PatMan33]

You cannot ever go wrong with strawberry!  Do you strain out all the seeds?

[Rysworld]

I will! It's still sitting on the strawberries now, actually. The flesh has gone all pale, so hopefully the color will be good at least! And it smells of strawberries.

There's a side-brew happening also, a blueberry hibiscus mead which will be like 5-6% and also sparkling.

Ingredients (Blueberries, honey, and some dried hibiscus from my aunt):
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847553208897241168/Resized_20210527_121120.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847553209237110836/Resized_20210527_120954.jpeg

Blending blueberries:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847567581091332146/Resized_20210527_124243.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847567581615357972/Resized_20210527_124300.jpeg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847567581934256148/Resized_20210527_124348.jpeg

Inoculating the new brew with some of the strawberry mead:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847567584483606578/Resized_20210527_125750.jpeg

Dark Liquid:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431188832008798230/847567743141412894/Resized_20210527_130915.jpeg