Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

2208 readers

2 users here now

A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.

Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.

Some starting points for beginners:

Introduction to Beer Brewing

A basic mead primer

Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine

Brewing software

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Brewing with tibicos (water kefir grains) (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

These days I'm experimenting with tibicos as an (almost) non-alcoholic, low carb yet still festive alternative to beer with a very fast turn around. I usually tend to brew quite strong beers in the Belgian tradition (8-12%) because these are my favorite styles, so not getting smashed while still enjoying a tasty drink is always nice.

I was wondering if any of you have ever tried brewing beer with it. The composition of tibicos grains is suspiciously similar to a lot of sour beer cultures (mostly various strains of S. Cervisae, lactobacillus and acetobacter). I was thinking something along the lines of a Berliner Weisse or some light gueuze/lambic.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Have never tried doing a classic wort fermentation with it, just the normal soda thing - sugar, lemon and water, but had never managed to get a stable system going. I'd wonder if the colony is well suited as a whole to digesting mostly maltose from a wort or if the yeast will overpower the others.