WOW ! Best brew yet.. so tasty !!! not sure if it tastes like cranberries since I don't actually eat cranberries, but it's sweet and has a very mellow beer tone. Not hoppy at all. Can't really tell how much alcohol percentage it is since secondary fermentation where I put in dried cranberries added extra sugars / alcohol.
FG was 1.018, but I added cranberries also to secondary and this thing fermented away for another week and a half w/o stopping. I didn't want to ferment all the sugar from adding cranberry during secondary, so I bottled. It was carbonated already pretty much. So much so that the bubbles in the racking line were stopping the flow during siphon.
Taste is good... a bit sweet, but that's kinda what I was going for. That explains the 1.018 FG. I'm more concerned about bottle bombs because I had already poured in 5oz of priming sugar and was already mixing in the beer by the time I realized how carbonated it already was.
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not 4.4%.. more like 7% probably because the software couldn't adjust for the extra sugar from cranberries in boil and also in secondary.
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not 4.4%.. more like 7% probably because the software couldn't adjust for the extra sugar from cranberries in boil and also in secondary.
1/2/2018 8:01:32 PM