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I recon so! I will have a look in my brew books and send you a recipy if I find one
No, but it should not harm it. To avoid the sediment some visitors filter the brew with a coffee filter before they add the concentrate.
We do not cover this on YoBrew and I do not recoment this. Its ilegal is
nearly all countries in the world and can be dangerous.
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Be careful!!
For most beers 4 - 8 weeks is fine. Heavy / high strenth beers take
longer to mature. Drinking heavy beers too early can make them too bitter.
It all depends on the how the ingredient balance changes over time.
Having said this I have had no problems drinking home brew beer as early as
two weeks and I have kept home brew beer for up to a year and it been pretty
good. This was kept in a 2 litre ex-fizzydrink bottle (PET).
I keep
it as long as I want and if it tastes a bit funny then I do'nt drink it.
Homebrew usually improves with age. Chimay blue improves with age it is 9%
alcohol and has a five year shelf life. I kept a can of standard larger for
a year and when I poured it out it had loads of bits and look very
unpleasent.
It depends on the wine. A full bodied wine like elderberry can keep for many years. Ligher wines that is ones with less tannin and lower in alcohol will need to be drunk sooner.
As a rough guide
All wine need at least 6 month to age
Most country wines benefit from two years in the bottle
Elderberry is very full bodied and I her tale of it being fine after 20
years. Do bear in mind that home brew corks are not designed for such long
term storage. Having said that I just opend my ten year old elderberry wine
and it tasted great. I had sealed it with a normal homebrew cork.
I would say 3 months tops. The reason for this is that plastic allows oxygen through. For a plastic, PET is quite good a barrier to oxygen but over time too much oxygen will permiate through the thin PET barrier. Since wine is quite high in alcohol it is more prone to exposure to oxygen. In addition these type of plastics allow odours to seep through so if you keep it near your garlic you will have a new flavour all of its own. This is why mineral water in platic bottles has a shelf life.
They are pretty similar. The difference is in the by-product of fermentation.
Baker yeast does not have the same taste. I think the alcohol tolerance is
similar (5% by volume) . In times gone by people often used bakers yeast in
place of brewers yeast for home brew. (They probably do
so now). Some
literature says do not use bakers yeast as it leave a flowery taste but I
suspect it is not the yeast and more the way the
yeast is packaged. So to
summary the brew will taste a little different but its not a bad altenative.
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