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I know we can add hops to beer, and over the years beer has evolved, two ways to brew beer, either warm around 20°C or cold around 5°C called larger, but the method does not seem to change the taste much, remember you can get dark larger, and light high temperature beer like the India pale ale also designed to keep for a long time.
But walk down the supermarket and look at the use by date on beers, and larger and IPA does not seem to have a longer time to the rest?
But beer kits, use tap water, which may have things in it, which can cause it to go off, so speed is important, alcohol stops the unwanted bugs, so one can't larger beer kits. The alcohol is from the part digested sugars, and one can brew just sugar, this is one way to make liquors, but it has a bitter after-taste, so the taste is removed with charcoal, and then the wanted taste added. One can get up to 20% alcohol that way. But for a beer if we removed the taste it would be a bit pointless, so for 20 litres of beer, 1.5 kg of wart, and 1.5 kg of sugar is about the limit giving around 6% alcohol.
But we can omit the sugar, and replace it with more wart of some type, and the two can beer kits do taste better, however kits are around the £12 to £15 mark for single can, and double that for twin can, so one has to look at cost. £30/40 = 75p per pint, against 38p per pint, and Morison's were selling 4 cans of beer for 90p until the Welsh law stopped it, and if drinking because we like the taste, having beer at 2% is better as to beer at 6% as you can drink more without falling over. But at 2% home brew will go off, so the Welsh government has forced me to increase my alcohol consumption.
So I could use that can instead of sugar with another kit, or try to brew it on its own, but then no hops, or do two fermenters together with a kit, sugar, and the malt. I only have the one can, so no point in an experiment, hence the question. I have bought enough kits to do the year as they were so cheap, I only have two fermenters, and only one heat mat, and how quick I can brew depends on how much pop my wife drinks, as I recycle the pop bottles, but never use them twice for beer, as that's how one gets bad brews.
But walk down the supermarket and look at the use by date on beers, and larger and IPA does not seem to have a longer time to the rest?
But beer kits, use tap water, which may have things in it, which can cause it to go off, so speed is important, alcohol stops the unwanted bugs, so one can't larger beer kits. The alcohol is from the part digested sugars, and one can brew just sugar, this is one way to make liquors, but it has a bitter after-taste, so the taste is removed with charcoal, and then the wanted taste added. One can get up to 20% alcohol that way. But for a beer if we removed the taste it would be a bit pointless, so for 20 litres of beer, 1.5 kg of wart, and 1.5 kg of sugar is about the limit giving around 6% alcohol.
But we can omit the sugar, and replace it with more wart of some type, and the two can beer kits do taste better, however kits are around the £12 to £15 mark for single can, and double that for twin can, so one has to look at cost. £30/40 = 75p per pint, against 38p per pint, and Morison's were selling 4 cans of beer for 90p until the Welsh law stopped it, and if drinking because we like the taste, having beer at 2% is better as to beer at 6% as you can drink more without falling over. But at 2% home brew will go off, so the Welsh government has forced me to increase my alcohol consumption.
So I could use that can instead of sugar with another kit, or try to brew it on its own, but then no hops, or do two fermenters together with a kit, sugar, and the malt. I only have the one can, so no point in an experiment, hence the question. I have bought enough kits to do the year as they were so cheap, I only have two fermenters, and only one heat mat, and how quick I can brew depends on how much pop my wife drinks, as I recycle the pop bottles, but never use them twice for beer, as that's how one gets bad brews.
