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Title: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 13, 2012, 05:42:58 PM

 Any body have ideas about making non alcohol beer?

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: zymurgist05 on August 19, 2012, 05:03:14 AM

Never considered it.  Why are you?

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 19, 2012, 02:58:50 PM

I have friends who cannot drink and are wanting some odouls with a little hop bite so I figured I would see if it was possible

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: Wingeezer on August 19, 2012, 04:03:44 PM

Well, not that I would have much interest in trying it - but seems to me I have read someplace that it is not practical to do at home.  Seems the method is to brew a normal beer and then remove the alcohol.


That explained something to me.  i could never understand why "Near beer" was nt that far off the price of real beer - especually considering govt taxes on  alcohol.

I suppose the high cost is due to relatively low volume production, plus the extra step of removing the alcohol.


Brian.



PS - President's choice de-alcoholized beer isn't all that bad and probably less expensive that O'Doul's.  I tink you can getr it in a lager and in a red ale.




   

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 20, 2012, 02:49:53 PM

Thanks geez I guess it would involve distillation making it illegal also

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: jomebrew on August 21, 2012, 08:44:17 AM

Alcohol boils off around 180F.  I guess you could heat your fermented wort to say 190 or 200.

Another way is to freeze the beer and not the alcohol then siphon off the alcohol or remove the chunks of beer.

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 22, 2012, 07:06:49 PM

thanks for the advice I could try boiling a small amount and see what happens

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: jomebrew on August 23, 2012, 09:33:32 AM

You will want to let the beer set out and degass overnight.  The CO2 will make it foam over an make a mess.

I would not boil it as you will quickly volatilize the aromatics and flavor compounds.  They will leave the beer along with the alcohol.

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: beaver_40 on August 25, 2012, 03:04:00 PM

Just a thought - Try a small (1 gallon) batch as a test run.  If it sucks you didn't bottle as much, didn't waste as much time and didn't waste bottles of good beer.

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 26, 2012, 04:40:07 PM

exactly beav thanks joe i will try it

Title: Re: non alcohol beer
Post by: piper55 on August 27, 2012, 05:25:25 PM

the problem is carbonating it I guess