Adding to a beer

PieOpah,

Another way to add more flavor to your beer is to steep crushed grains at 150 using a portion of your water. This mini mash method is done by many extract brewers and yeilds a better beer than just extract alone. There is alot of info on this on the net that a simple search can give you.

Heath

Thanks, will have a look into doing that :D

My next experiment will be a similar process but intead will be using fennel and star anise in a stout.

I would also like to try a Pomegranete beer. For this I was planning on just adding an amount of Pomegranete juice, extracted from the fruit itself. What I would like to know is roughly how much juice should I use?

You are adding some very unusual things to your beer. Star anise is a very powerful flavouring, you will want to watch how much you are putting in. Why dont you try changing the flavour profile of your beer using some steeped grains such as crystal malts and some late addition hops maybe. You wont find many people to share your drinking experience with if you put star anise in your beer. Steve W.

Well the christmas beer went down well which is why I wanted to try something different.

With the Star Anise, this would be going into a Stout (Coopers Stout). I have passed on this for now in favour of a coffee flavour. Basically brewed up 2 pots of coffee and have added this to the wort. Will be trying the aniseed stout next time round.

I was planning on trying the Pomegranete with a pale ale

Thanks