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[CaptRon]

Check this out: https://hbd.org/cgi-...r...0&item=603325.7% alchohol, and whats up with the three stages with "Beano"?? Is that the gas tablets that I'm thinking of??

[RommelMagic]

Check this out: https://hbd.org/cgi-...r...0&item=603325.7% alchohol, and whats up with the three stages with "Beano"?? Is that the gas tablets that I'm thinking of??

I tend to think it is. I remember reading something about beano additions, but for the life of me can't remember why it was used.edit:spelling

[Mudd]

Beano breaks up the complex sugars.Lower carbs, less taste and basically a thinner beer.

[shaggaroo]

Beano breaks up the complex sugars.Lower carbs, less taste and basically a thinner beer.

Basically makes it more fermentable due to the fewer complex sugars; and as Mudd says, therefore thinner.

[chuck_d]

This just gave me a great idea for brewing up an insanely high gravity brew like this, except instead of doing 3 extract batches, I'd do one full size AG batch, but can 2/3rds of it. Then I can just feed the beast as I see fit. This is definitely a glass carboy not a plastic bucket task.

[Zulu]

Beano is an enzyme

[JReigle]

Look at this one also. This guy goes into great detail about how he brewed a 21%ABV brew. I've never tried it, but I was always a bit intrigued by the method of staggering the malt additions to really get the ABV up. He also uses Beano, but his methods are all grain.

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

Beano is great for anyone trying to get a high ABV. It can easily help a beer drop 20 points as long as the yeast can handle it. It also adds considerably to the fermentation time, as the yeast are usually not in the best of health by the time Beano gets dropped into the fermentor.

[chuck_d]

Look at this one also. This guy goes into great detail about how he brewed a 21%ABV brew. I've never tried it, but I was always a bit intrigued by the method of staggering the malt additions to really get the ABV up. He also uses Beano, but his methods are all grain.

You I remember reading that awhile back. I thought "Cause of Death" is a great name for that beer!

[chuck_d]

Beano is great for anyone trying to get a high ABV. It can easily help a beer drop 20 points as long as the yeast can handle it. It also adds considerably to the fermentation time, as the yeast are usually not in the best of health by the time Beano gets dropped into the fermentor.

Personally, I'd probably add some yeast while adding the Beano.

[CaptRon]

Crazy, I wonder who thought this up for the first time."Eh, screw it Imma toss in this Beano that I got sittin around and see what happens" lol

[pods8]

Just as a heads up that yeast is theoretically capable of hitting 25% but its hard to do in practice. I tried a while back and detailed it on the other board but will summarize really quick:Mashed a huge grain bill and took the first 1/3 of the runnings to the side and added pilinocho sugar to it to make a malt/sugar syrup which I hopped and boiled for a bit and then canned that like you would for starters.Boiled the other 2/3 of the runnings like a normal beer, this would start out as a 1.100 gravity if I recall.I hit it with yeast nutrient, pure 02, and WLP099 and off things went.I monitored gravity to keep it in the 1.050-1.070 range and then would hit it with a quart of the syrup I had made, repeat.However alas the thing pooped out at 18% however it had the sugar for an OG of 1.210 so its stalled at something like 1.050 if I recall correctly (those numbers may be off a tad since I'm just working out of my head). Too sweet to really drink but I don't have the heart to pitch it incase I come up with a good idea down the road. That carboy has been sitting the closet for over 2years and even traveled in a move...

[chuck_d]

this would start out as a 1.100 gravity if I recall.I hit it with yeast nutrient, pure 02, and WLP099 and off things went.I monitored gravity to keep it in the 1.050-1.070 range and then would hit it with a quart of the syrup I had made, repeat.However alas the thing pooped out at 18% however it had the sugar for an OG of 1.210 so its stalled at something like 1.050 if I recall correctly (those numbers may be off a tad since I'm just working out of my head). Too sweet to really drink but I don't have the heart to pitch it incase I come up with a good idea down the road. That carboy has been sitting the closet for over 2years and even traveled in a move...

I would try pitching another strain of yeast. Finish it off with dry champagne yeast or something like that. That's how I'd plan a project like that as it is. I think that around 17-19% abv I'd rack, then toss in a fresh pitch of yeast.

[MolBasser]

Too sweet to really drink but I don't have the heart to pitch it incase I come up with a good idea down the road. That carboy has been sitting the closet for over 2years and even traveled in a move...

You're not married, are you.... :hehe:BrewBasser

[3rd party JKor]

You're not married, are you....BrewBasser

Is this our first BBs marriage proposal?

[dapittboss]

Beano is effective in reducing final gravity, but, as noted, at the expense of the body of the beer. One drawback is that it can keep breaking down the residual carbohydrate in the beer until there is very little left except rocket fuel (alcohol and water). The only sure way to stop it is too keep the beer chilled. If the beer warms up again, the beano enzymes can resume there activity.

[dapittboss]

Beano is effective in reducing final gravity, but, as noted, at the expense of the body of the beer. One drawback is that it can keep breaking down the residual carbohydrate in the beer until there is very little left except rocket fuel (alcohol and water). The only sure way to stop it is too keep the beer chilled. If the beer warms up again, the beano enzymes can resume there activity.

[earthtone]

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