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shandy
hi,
we tried to make a sort of shandy at one time. we used just the last 5 liter in the fermenter 
but how do i get it sweet?
we used about 5 liter pilsner and added juice from 9 fresh, unwaxed lemons no extra sugar, as we thougth, it will become alcohol anyhow.
after 4 weeks maturing, it had a little gas and tasted "green". now after 9 weeks, its has a nice color, gas is perfect, taste of the beer good but the sweetness of the lemonade is missing. at the moment we put it manually in the glass, before we fill the beer in, but this releases to much of the gas.
i have read somewhere that artificial sweetners make the beer bitter. any suggestions how to solve the problem.
lg maddy
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Posted 11 months ago by Moderator
Hi.
It sounds as though the sugars are fermenting out by the action of the residual yeast, which is exactly as you would expect. Eventually, yeast will convert nearly all the sugars to alcohol and there will be no sweetness. You could use a live yeast with a very low attenuation and high floculation, or you could use Potassium Sorbate to stop the yeast working, but if you stop the yeast working you'll get no gas produced. Bit of a no win situation. The other answer is to use Pot Sorb to stop the fermentation at a stage you prefer, then drop the temperature of the beer to almost 0°c and inject CO2 at pressure before bottling. The low temperature will make the beer absorb a lot of CO2.
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Posted 11 months ago by Moderator
You could add lactose as its an unfermentable sugar, though I'm unsure of the quantities.
Fermenting: Summer pale ale
Maturing/Conditioning: Marynka pseudo-lager
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Posted 11 months ago by Member
milk sugar
that gives you the runner 
and has an horrible taste/texture as it not really desolves (at lest in my yogurt )
Posted 11 months ago by Moderator
Fermenting: Summer pale ale
Maturing/Conditioning: Marynka pseudo-lager
Drinking: Wheat beer, ESB, Vienna lager & shop bought stuff
Posted 11 months ago by Member
i love it
where did you get it from?
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