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MANGOES

PostPosted: Saturday Jan 10, 2009 9:27 pm
by bensfarm
been given heaps of mangoes,

so thought i'd cook some up 6kg

add 3 litres apple juice

few litres of water

bit of dex 500 or 1 kg

100g lactose

brew for a couple of week champers yeast

then bottle like beer..


any thoughts cjust put cooked stuff in fridge 4 the night.


any ideas would be apreciated

Re: MANGOES

PostPosted: Sunday Jan 11, 2009 8:36 am
by timmy
I'd tend to make a mango beer with it..... I recently made a Belgian Blonde ale and racked some on to mangoes and it came out lovely....

If you're going to do it, perhaps use a white wine yeast because the champagne yeast might dry it out too much.

Re: MANGOES

PostPosted: Sunday Jan 11, 2009 9:56 am
by bensfarm
ok i'll try the differnt yeast
have a canadian blonde in cupboard and i can get more mangoes
will try that also

Re: MANGOES

PostPosted: Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 4:35 pm
by KEG
timmy wrote:I'd tend to make a mango beer with it..... I recently made a Belgian Blonde ale and racked some on to mangoes and it came out lovely....
that sounds really good!

Re: MANGOES

PostPosted: Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 8:58 pm
by timmy
It was....

Pity I only made a 6-pack