this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
13 points (93.3% liked)

Homebrewing - Beer, Mead, Wine, Cider

2732 readers
40 users here now

A community dedicated to homebrewing beer, mead, wine, cider and everything in between. If it ferments, bring it over here.

Share recipes, ideas, ask for feedback or just advice.


Some starting points for beginners:

Introduction to Beer Brewing

A basic mead primer

Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine

Brewing software


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I am thinking about brewing some Belgian #beer for Christmas and have frozen cherries and cherries in rum.

Do anyone here from the #homebrewing fedi bubble have any good recipe or suggestions how to use it?

@homebrewing

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] AndiPopp@chaos.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

@plactagonic @homebrewing I did some research last year and looks like those Belgian krieks are actually stored in wine barrels for a year to infuse them with the cherry flavor. That was a bit too much for my means ๐Ÿ˜…

I would be very interested in alternative methods to get similar results as well.

[โ€“] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lambics are very special style, with 6+ biological agents working simultaneously, none of those pure clones like brewers yeast. It's not even cherry centered really. And, judging by commercial beers quality, I'm afraid it's about to become lost art.

[โ€“] plactagonic@f.cz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@AndiPopp @homebrewing I know, few months ago I was in Belgium and visited brewery that makes lambics.

Tbh I really don't like this style I was thinking about some dubbel or some different strong style.

[โ€“] AndiPopp@chaos.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

@plactagonic @homebrewing Ah ok, haven't seen many of those using cherries so I probably jumped to conclusions. I'm still interested in what your coming up with ๐Ÿ˜Š