On Mon, 9 May 2005 16:10:32 -0400, "Matt" <mttmrrsn.xxx@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>I wanted to brew up a strawberry beer for the ladies so I started with a
>simple all extract lager recipe, 4 lbs of mashed strawberries and about a
>pound of honey. The brew went fine and I added the strawberries at the end
>(after I cut the heat to the boil and let things cool down a bit) to
>pasteurize things but now here's my question... did I make a mistake by
>leaving the fruit in the carboy during the reaction? I definitely plan a
>secondary pitch as soon as the reaction stops but for some reason I have a
>bad feeling about leaving the fruit in there while the yeast does it's job.
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No. The fruit in the carboy isn't a bad idea.

The fruit has it's own yeast. It may, or may not, predominate the
yeast you pitch. Don't care.

Secondary yeast to make sure most of the sugar is fermented? I don't
know about that . . . my ladies like sweet . . . I like alcohol.

Brewing for the ladies . . . add dextrin.

Brewing for ladies is a waste of effort- in my opinion.

Save yourself time. Women's like liquor - take some good quality rum
(not scotch, in a pinch corn whiskey) add extract flavor and sugar as
per the instructions (sweet counts) . They will suck it down and
think you're a genius. Or, that's what works for me . . .

I buy a $4 bottle of extract chocolate or cherry put it into a fifth
of rum $9, and I'm a f**cking brewing genius. And it beats the $25
bottle of chocolate liqueur (according to the "little lady")

My wife doesn't like beer. I made ginger beer, mead, unhopped barley
wine, etc. She didn't like any of it (but she will drink commercial
wine). Poured a bottle (2 ounces) of chocolate liqueur concentrate in
rum and I was gold. Vodka? don't waste the time . . .

In other words: brew to make yourself happy, nobody's taste but your
own's counts. If you can find a way to keep the wife happy, do it.

My OL did sort of like the ginger beer - it was like champagne - dry
with lots of small bubbles. Sweeten it, and it would have worked (I
believe). But God gave me beer - why waste time on whine?

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