02-05-2012, 10:12 PM
Just ordered a EZ cap kit, now I have to wait till it arrives to Spain :?
My home brewing experience is short:
2 batches of beer (kit)
1 batch of mead
I don't have so much time these days, so before to make a new beer batch (extract) I will test some ultra-fast EZ-batches.
There is one thing very interesting on this EZ stuff, well two. One is the short time and the other is the price. These combination allows you to make a lot of cheap and fast tests, if something is wrong or the recipe is a mess you just waste 2 weeks and few bucks.
My first 2 tests will be cider and mead.
Here you are what I plan to do. Is it OK for a EZ brew?
Cider
2l pressed apple juice (no water, no sugar)
Yeast
Mead
500g of honey
2l of water
Yeast
Maybe some flavor (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg)
I think there is no need to add extra sugar, according to brew calculators, apple juice has enough sugar to arrive to the yeast limit and 500g of honey on 2l batch should be enough to arrive to something like 7.3% ABV, enough for me.
I want to bottle at least 2 33cl bottles of each, one with prime and one without and let them not less than 4 weeks.
am I crazy? :mrgreen:
My home brewing experience is short:
2 batches of beer (kit)
1 batch of mead
I don't have so much time these days, so before to make a new beer batch (extract) I will test some ultra-fast EZ-batches.
There is one thing very interesting on this EZ stuff, well two. One is the short time and the other is the price. These combination allows you to make a lot of cheap and fast tests, if something is wrong or the recipe is a mess you just waste 2 weeks and few bucks.
My first 2 tests will be cider and mead.
Here you are what I plan to do. Is it OK for a EZ brew?
Cider
2l pressed apple juice (no water, no sugar)
Yeast
Mead
500g of honey
2l of water
Yeast
Maybe some flavor (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg)
I think there is no need to add extra sugar, according to brew calculators, apple juice has enough sugar to arrive to the yeast limit and 500g of honey on 2l batch should be enough to arrive to something like 7.3% ABV, enough for me.
I want to bottle at least 2 33cl bottles of each, one with prime and one without and let them not less than 4 weeks.
am I crazy? :mrgreen: