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adding honey to secondary??

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  • 15-05-2011 1:28pm
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    wuben
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭


    hi i was thinking of adding a jar or two of honey to the seconday when racking beer...i have coopers blonde on at mo....what i was thinking of doing was leave the beer in primary till fermentation is stopped the when racking add honey im trying to get a honey taste of beer few questions if anyone can help me ...would this work/be ok? would it cause beer to start fermenting again? i wasnt going to boil the honey in water or anything just straight in?any advice would be great cheers


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    mayto
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭mayto


    If you add honey the beer will start fermenting again, two jars of honey will make the beer a lot stronger too. :D. Another way would be to use honey as a priming solution at bottling time instead of brewing sugar. To be safe maybe heat the honey with a bit of water in the microwave for a few minutes, although a friend bottled using honey straight from jar a few years ago and was fine. What volume of beer do you think you will be bottling? . You are probably looking at using 7g of honey per litre of beer at bottling time if your beer ferments around 18C.


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    wuben
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭wuben


    Never thought of honey making it stronger! I'll be making 40ty pints round 4.5percent don't want anything too strong I like to enjoy the taste!!I mite try priming with honey very tedious thou would that be enough to give me a good honey flavour thou?cheers for reply


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    mayto
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭mayto


    Honey is about 80% fermentable so you will more alcohol when it ferments out. I am not sure would you get much honey flavour using it at bottling but worth a shot maybe. Just add your total honey batch priming amount to a sanitised fermenter and transfer the beer to this. You can then just bottle directly from this, a lot easier than adding honey to each bottle :)


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