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Whey Beer

I was reading a book yesterday on the history of beer. Apparently during WWI, the Germans had to resort to making beer with odd ingredients, as grains were in short supply. One type of beer the book mentioned was made with whey (as in curds and whey, yuck). Anyways, I was just curious if anyone has ever tried or seen a beer made with whey? Supposedly it is a ghoslty pale beer, or maybe that's how one looks after drinking one :). I was just curious how one would even make a beer with whey (not sure where the sugars come from). Feel free to post any other strange brews you've heard of or tasted.

John

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John M
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Hi

I have brewed a few batches of beer, a belgian golden, a framboise and a chocolate coffee stout, all of which turned out to be really good. I'm trying to brew a cider, and I bought some store bought apple juice (3 gallons) which I added some water and sugar to get the sp. gravity just right. However, on adding champagne yeast its been 2 days and I still don't see the primary bubbling away. Is this normal? I dunno if cider ferments at the same robust rate that a regular beer would. I wanted to ask before I popped open the lid to check the specific gravity.

One of my buddies says that store bought cider has preservatives which might've killed the yeast. He also said that adding regular sugar is probably not a good idea and that I should go with corn sugar. I frankly don't see that from a chemistry standpoint since both of them are basically sucrose, a double sugar. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Ranjan

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rg

Corn sugar is not a double sugar, it is a single sugar, glucose.

Some store bought ciders are free from preservatives, and are simply pasteurised. The label will tell you whivh is which

steveb

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steveb

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