Brewing lager with honey?

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Brewing lager with honey?

Post by ralph60 » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:02 am

Has anyone tried it? what sort of results or does it not work?

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Re: Brewing lager with honey?

Post by IPA » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:14 am

If it's just the taste of honey that you are after brew a Kolsch with WLP029 yeast and tell everybody that it is lager. I doubt if anyone will question it.
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Re: Brewing lager with honey?

Post by ciderhead » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:51 am

You can also use Honey Malt?

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Re: Brewing lager with honey?

Post by Fil » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:31 pm

if experimenting i would suggest you start with small honey additions perhaps 100g and increase if you feel you want more flavour through, Dont just drop a 1lb jar into a brew,, i did that with molasses ONCE!! the result was an almost anticeptic licorice overtone that dwarfed any other flavour in the brew.
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