% of dme in a gallon

[wezil]

Hi any one be able to tell me what %alc or the sg of dissolving a kilo of dme in a gallon of water (another leap off the edge of good sense) :

 

[pittsy]

that will give you a og of 1080 but will only ferment to 1020 but will still give you 8% abv :thumb:

 

[pittsy]

p.s don't do it , first you'll need lots of hops to balance it and will require a big starter or a couple of packets of yeast and to be honest will taste too strong , you need certain recipes and certain strains of yeast to get a nice drinkable very strong beer .

 

[wezil]

Hi thanks for the reply,if it's only going to get to 8% im going to need some extra fermentables/flavours. (Im going to try to make a wine/beer hybrid) So it needs to taste of malt (yummy)! Got a lot of ideas (most of them daft, but ain't that half the fun)!!

 

[alanywiseman.]

What are you thinking yeast wise? Are you going to start with a beer yeast then move onto a wine yeast?

 

[wezil]

Hmm now thats a question, but i'll probably go with a champagne yeast (lavins) as iv'e got some in stock, and will make up a fairly big starter
Unless thoughts are that a beer yeast (got gervins ale yeast) might be better to start,(might ferment better with the malt) and then rack and add champagne yeast in secondary. (A can of worms has been opened I feel)!
Im doing a barley wine (not the beer type) at the mo with youngs wine yeast,should be about 17ish% and that looks like an ale ferment masses of head and froth not like a normal (to me) wine ferment with slight fizzing. So im expecting to use a blow off and a tray for the malt wine. When I get started i'll post how I get on (might be a while as iv'e got a lot on the go now) :

 

[alanywiseman.]

i can remeber its name but the world strongest beer (that does not use Fr**ze D***********) uses a few different yeast starting with an ale yeast and ending with a Sake yeast i think.

Food for thought

 

[pittsy]

go for it by all means but i'll wager you won't do it twice (once you've sampled it ) I'm all for experimenting but there's a reason you can't get (mostly) beer that strong ,it'll be too strong to enjoy imo , have fun though .

 

[wezil]

I think the expense for a single gallon will put me off doing it twice! :lol: