Additives for Flavour

Additives for Flavour

Adding exciting flavours to your beer, cider, or spirits can bring a new dimension to your beverage.

There are many ways to experiment with a homebrew recipe and make it your own without necessarily starting from scratch. Find a basic recipe you like, and then consider adding unique flavours to enhance the beer.

Experimenting with fruits, spices, herbs, and other ingredients in homebrewing is a delightful journey. The possibilities are endless, from orange peel and coriander seeds to juniper berries and cardamom. However, it's crucial to exercise caution when you first start experimenting. Remember, a little goes a long way. You can always add more if the flavour isn't strong enough, but you can never remove it once it's there.

You can add these ingredients in two places during brewing: either in the last few minutes of the boil or to the secondary when you transfer the beer. Adding them at the end of the hop boil tends to give you a softer, more mellow flavour (and the boiling wort sanitizes the ingredients, so there's no worry of infection). Adding ingredients to the secondary gives a brighter, fresher, more vibrant flavour, but there is a risk of picking up an infection.