Beer & Homebrewing – Planetary Expedition

Bottle Conditioning Beer with Speise

Frank — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:36:49 +0000

Beer according to the Reinheitsgebot is not allowed to use other forms of sugar in your bottles for carbonation. Spiese is the answer I found to be easiest on the Homebrewing scale. The popular homebrewing tactic of using a scoop of sugar, honey, or corn sugar to carbonate your beer in the bottles is therefore not allowed if you want to do things the traditional way. And I tend to prefer more…

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Affordable BIAB Homebrew setup

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:37:16 +0000

After getting a 5 liter beer kit for my birthday in 2026, I was hopelessly lost to the hobby. As many homebrewers seem to get. Even though I didn’t really like my first beer, a Belgian blonde ale, as it became oxidised, and tasted like wet cardboard. It was also pretty heavy, at 6.7 % and the style in general is not my favorite. But the potential I saw in the hobby, was enough for me to dive…

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Stinging Nettle Beer

Frank — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:48:53 +0000

Something that I wanted to try out ever since I saw it, was to try and make “Beer” out of stinging nettles. Its a fun project which takes something that is usually seen as a weed, and turns it into something you can enjoy on a hot summers day. Beer! Lets get the controversy out of the way, this is not beer by the modern and medieval standards, and could be more coined as a wine, hooch…

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