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Yup hate this hme its official...lme pale dme pale 8 weeks condition....still tastes as cidery as my first ever batch that only had 4 weeks of conditioning

It needs hops in a bad way. Make sure to add some for a flavor boil. Since the HME provides little flavor, your beer will come out tasting very very hoppy if you add some.

Togorok wrote:Yup hate this hme its official...lme pale dme pale 8 weeks condition....still tastes as cidery as my first ever batch that only had 4 weeks of conditioning

Fantastic....

Was my 2nd ever batch (after CAL), and it's conditioned now for only 3 weeks. Looks to be a looooooong wait I guess.. (not that I won't imbibe before for experimental reasons)

Good thing Bewitched Amber Ale Deluxe is in the LBK right now or I might implode.

Come to think of it, I may implode anyway as I'm at least a month + out either way. No pipeline yet.

Refractometer samples while an agave cerveza was brewing suggested to me that Aztec could be good for fruit beers - so I will try one coming up.

A pound of a light dme and some agave or lime REALLY helps this HME. Adding some peppers in the boil, or after flame out adds a nice spice to it also. I have noticed when you start adding body to the brew the cider taste is gone much sooner.

I have done this with agave and limes because the hme by itself lack something. I have heard fruit could be a good pairing Mr. Beer has recipes with raspberries and also boysenberries.

I have a can of this and a can of Classic American Light left on the shelf and am considering doing both as raspberry. My experience in using fruit - blueberry, raspberry, and cherry - is that the raspberry is MUCH stronger and therefore more enjoyable than the two other fruits. I'm also considering using my last can of the new Oktoberfest with raspberries.

I have made:

Firecracker Red - which uses the old High Country Canadian Draft with a can of cherries, honey and cinnamon. Found the cinnamon made stomachs churn a bit.

St. Valentine's Cherries in Honey - same as above, lose the cinnamon. Ok, not great.

Blue Patriot - Patriot Ale with two cans of Blueberry. Ok, not great.

Raspberry Lager - uses old Oktoberfest with Raspberries. Excellent.

I'm considering trying the Cerveza with blueberries, maybe as winter approaches and I expect a lager-like result. But my experience twice so far with blueberry is that I may need to supplement it with a small amount of flavor extract at bottling to have a recognizeable blueberry flavor.

Togorok wrote:Yup hate this hme its official...lme pale dme pale 8 weeks condition....still tastes as cidery as my first ever batch that only had 4 weeks of conditioning

fwiw. i did the cerveza and added 1 pack lme robust, and i thought it made a fair imitation of a negra modelo. it took 6 weeks to condition out proper, longer would've probably been better.

BrownstotheBone wrote:

Togorok wrote:Yup hate this hme its official...lme pale dme pale 8 weeks condition....still tastes as cidery as my first ever batch that only had 4 weeks of conditioning

Fantastic....

Was my 2nd ever batch (after CAL), and it's conditioned now for only 3 weeks. Looks to be a looooooong wait I guess.. (not that I won't imbibe before for experimental reasons)

Good thing Bewitched Amber Ale Deluxe is in the LBK right now or I might implode.

Come to think of it, I may implode anyway as I'm at least a month + out either way. No pipeline yet.

Browns: Kinda like waiting for the Browns to make it to the playoffs again, eh...let alone a .500 record...

T8rSalad wrote:Browns: Kinda like waiting for the Browns to make it to the playoffs again, eh...let alone a .500 record...

You a Cardinals fan or a transplant? Please don't tell me you're a Stooler fan. I might drive off the road... and I'm not even driving right now.

I made a steam beer out of my award Aztech. I think I just added some steeped crystal, 1# of DME, and some Northern Brewer. I used white labs California lager I think. It actually came out quite good.