Topic: Raspberry Ale

I have made the raspberry ale. I used 150 mls of sugar. I boiled that with 300 mls of water, and then added it to the raspberry juice, which came out to 400 mls. I poured off some of the dregs from the first jar of beer I had made, and then poured the raspberry juice into the jar. Then I realized that since I only wanted the carbon dioxide in this case, and not the alcohol, there was no reason to keep it in the jar. Leaving it in the jar would just eat up the sugar and lose sweetness, which I don't want to do.

So I poured it into another clean wine bottle and stoppered it. It shouldn't take long to fizz up with that hungry, healthy beer yeast in it, so I may get to drink my raspberry ale before the beer. Of course, I now still have the empty 1-liter jar I had planned on using for the raspberry ale, so tomorrow I think I will start an oat beer with some oatmeal we bought intending to make many bowls of porridge, but forgetting that we don't really like porridge all that much. After that, if I have time, I may make a ginger ale or I may wait to see how the raspberry ale comes out.

I bottled another jar of the malt extract beer so now I have 2 empty 1-liter jars in which to make the oat beer.