brewing chick beer/drinks?

Question

I'm a home brewer, but the problem is my girlfriend doesn't drink beer, is there a good place to find recipes for drinks like mikes hard lemonade, smirnoff ice, bacardi silver, etc?

Answer 1

Cider is a good alternative...lots of info on the net.

Me and a buddy used to brew "coolers"...get some home-made soda flavour extract in the flavour you like, add a shot of desired booze to a standard beer size bottle, and carbonate with yeast and 1/2tsp of corn sugar per bottle...works best if you sweeten the "cooler" with 1/2tsp liquid SugarTwin per bottle. Best result we had was a strawberry-vodka cooler.

Answer 2

The problem with those drinks is that they're "malt beverages" which are basically unhopped beer that's been carbon filtered to the point where the flavor has been removed and then they add the fruitiness back in. It has to do with the taxes on spirit based drinks versus brewed...it would be so much easier to throw some vodka in a soda and sell that.

You might try a low gravity fruit wine...ok, cider. A quick and dirty way to do this is to get the cheap fruit nectars from Big Lots (they're cheap because they're past the 'use by' date, but who cares, you're fermenting it anyway) and since they're already pasteurized, you don't really have to do the whole sulfite/campden tablet thing. Crack 'em open, pour into your sanitized fermenter, pitch your yeast, and off you go.

Answer 3

All these malt beverages can be made by brewing a very light beer, like an American wheat beer, and then adding the fruit in the end.

Answer 4

Cider beer is so good! Ask if she would like to try that.