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[JBS]

I have only just started brewing my own beer (nov last year)and only seem to be making mid strenght beer.what could i be doing wrong??

 

[thunderleg]

I have only just started brewing my own beer (nov last year)and only seem to be making mid strenght beer.what could i be doing wrong??

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Not putting enough detail in your posts! What ingredients, equipment, methods have you been using?

 

[Stoodoo]

I have only just started brewing my own beer (nov last year)and only seem to be making mid strenght beer.what could i be doing wrong??

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More to the point, What's the flavour like??? If all you're after is alcohol strength, then get hold of some high alcohol tolerant yeast, add heaps of sugar, ferment it at the right temps and you'll get a high/higher alcohol beer. Horses for courses I guess, me...... If I could brew what I'd call, a perfect tasting beer, I wouldn't care what alcohol strength it was. Hell, one of my favourite beers is "only" 4.4% alcohol. Don't worry about alcohol strength, try to hone your beer to your preferred flavour profile.

Cheers

 

[mika]

And where you're from.. Others may want to visit for a taste test

Don't rely too heavily on what the hydrometer tells you (Alcohol % wise), it's still good stuff.
I had a wheat beer register ~3% on the hydrometer (OG-FG + the little bit for priming sugar), but a few glasses of that altered your mind state
And I generally don't drink anything commercial under 4.5%