Sunday, May 8, 2016

Porter Style Dark Keifer Brew #4 - Much better

Decided to go back to basics this time around.  Sticking with Molasses, just even less of it.

Recipe:
3 quarts water
3 grams hops
1/4 cup Molasses (Black Strap)
2 cups sugar
50 grams raisins

Boiled down to 2 quarts.

Then strained into the carboy and waited for it to be cool.

Added 2 quarts kiefer to the carboy.

Initial ABV = cant remember where i wrote it down >5%

Fermentation start 2/7/2016
Stopped 3/192016

Bottling I poured 12 ounces of fermented carboy into bottle, then added 2 ounces of fresh strained keifer plus 2 tsp sugar.

Notes:

  • This was really good.
  • Added ginger to a couple bottles, really balanced the flavor.
  • Consider adding Amaretto 
  • Really could not taste  the raisins.
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 12, 2018 at 3:28 PM

    Hi, when you say you added two quarts of kefir. What do you mean by this. If you have made kefir water how have you done this? Do you not add the grains directly to the ferment?

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  2. SchmitzJanuary 14, 2018 at 4:51 AM

    I add 2 quarts of kefir water (no grains) to carboy. That mixes with the boiler down 2 quarts.

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