Alcohol free IPA

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Re: Alcohol free IPA

Post by Pinto » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:58 pm

Commercial breweries have all sorts of tricks that you cant (within reason) replicate to make alcohol free beer. I'd imagine that they brew a low abv beer and then use vacuum distillation to allow the alcohol to flash off without adversely affecting the beer.

You can make your own caffeine free coffee if you can find supercritical CO2 in your local tesco :lol:
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Re: Alcohol free IPA

Post by HomeBrewChris » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:59 pm

I heard about a company that was making something similar to yeast that you put in after the beer is finished fermentation. It is supposed to consume the alcohol the same way the yeast consumes the sugar in the wort.. I'm not sure how close they are to selling this stuff but I'm sure it will be worth a lot of money if they pull it off.

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Re: Alcohol free IPA

Post by Pinto » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:22 pm

Mutant yeasts it seems....

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jib.72/full

Modified to produce increased amounts of flavour compounds whilst being unable to properly metabolise sugar. Saccharomycodes ludwigii seems to be your fella - probably available from a yeast bank
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Re: Alcohol free IPA

Post by alix101 » Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:05 am

Alcohol eating yeast ..you learn something new every day I'm going to have to search this out ....could have fun spiking drinks and everybody wondering why their sober. :roll:
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Re: Alcohol free IPA

Post by Pinto » Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:57 pm

alix101 wrote:http://byo.com/stout/item/263-brew-a-gr ... holic-beer

This was the link it sounds easy enough I'm going to try an experiment [-o<
Interesting read, but personally I'd only try it if I had access to force carbonation - even adding in 0.5% abv via carbonation seems to defeat the object of the process. You could also tackle the hopping issue by adding distilled hop oil from a lhbs and/or dry hopping the keg.
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