Hi everyone, I’ve come seeking your wisdom.
I love brewing beers. Im also, apparently, irresponsible when it comes to alcohol consumption. So I decided thotmi wont have alcohol in my house anymore. But I also want to still brew, and enjoy my brew.
So, is there a good way of de-alcoholizing the brew after it fetments, such that the flavor wont be impacted, or will be minimally impacted?.
Thank you, oh wise Lemmy hive mind
I actually love Hoptea. It’s tasty and gives me the hops from beer and a bit of caffeine. Would recommend.
What about freeze distilling? Just throw away the alcohol, will need to recarbonate though.
That would also remove some actual beer - what freezes off tends to be water and whatever can be solid at that temperature. Things like sugars giving body to the beer and what has a higher affinity to the concentrated alcohol solution would remain in the liquid phase.
For example, this is how brewdog does their very high alcohol beers like tactical nuclear penguin.
Though I would recommend to the OP to check out the brewdog recipe for Nanny State. That could be a starting point.
Did some Googling and found this article: homebrew academy
Reading it it might make sense to kill off the yeast before trying to boil off the alcohol. Maybe use a still so all of the water vapor is captured and flavor retained?
I have an article somewhere, will dig for it later, that goes over several methods. It is more towards low ABV rather than no alcohol. One of the methods, and the only one I’ve tried so far is to mash at a higher temperature. This activates other enzymes that produces longer (more complex) sugar chains. We want these as regular yeast “cannot” convert those to alcohol. So more complex sugars means more sugars left after fermentation which means we can run a lighter malt bill and still have plenty of sugars left.
And then hop it well.
I dunno about non-alcoholic homebrew beers, but I love me some Hops Water.
It is basically just sparkling water flavored with strong hops. Means that there are no malts in it. Tastes sort of like beer without tasting like watered down version of a proper beer. It’s a bit hard to explain and I have no idea how to do it yourself, but might be a good and an easy option.