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Hello Brewers!

I am still a noob to this, but I want to brew my wife something that she'd like.

I don't yet have the equipment to do an all grain, and I am reliant on extracts.

I was wondering if anyone has experimented with adding flavour ingredients, like cherry for example, to an extract? If so, when and what have you added? And is this going to be an expensive process of trial and error?

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

You can also throw berries, spices into mead quite liberally. Absolutely simplest, stuff, the only catch is long fermentation times. Yet, you can get quite awesome products in half year with tart berries or fruits.

I remember a couple tasting our simple mead once, and wife turned to her husband and said "hey, when you did the brewing, why did not you brew something nice instead, like this stuff?" So I'm pretty sure this is your best guess.

I was wrong many times on the matter. We had an idea to make strawberry beer for ladies, like "chicks like strawberry" - wrong! Dudes were like "honey, try some of this!" and drank bottles after bottles of pink beer, while their gfs gorged on proper imperial and belge style stuff.

But mead is solid option, always. Just make sure spice is not chili, unless she is into it.