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Finally brewed my Pistachio Pale last weekend, it's sitting in the fermenter chuggin' away. I crushed the pistachios, put them in a grain bag and boiled them for a half hour to make a pistachio tea. Using a ladle I scooped out some of the oils that came off the nuts, then added the tea to wort at 15min left in the boil. I'll let it ferment for a full 10 days, then bottle. This is the first time I've brewed this so I have no idea if it'll work, it's my own recipe so no one else to blame if it doesn't

Wow, did you taste the pistachio tea? Could you really get a lot of pistachio flavor from it?

The tea had a a good Pistachio flavor and aroma I'm hoping will still be noticeable when the beer is done fermenting.

Dude, check where you got your pistachios. The FDA has found out the warehouse that was the sourse for a salmonella outbreak. Salmonella poisoning is NOT a good thing, in fact it can kill you.

I'm just sayin' ...

alan_marks wrote:Dude, check where you got your pistachios. The FDA has found out the warehouse that was the sourse for a salmonella outbreak. Salmonella poisoning is NOT a good thing, in fact it can kill you.

I'm just sayin' ...

Boiling for a half an hour should be enough to kill salmonella.

I'm just sayin'.

I boiled them for an hour, everything was fine. Didn't do much for the beer though, no pistachio aroma or flavor stayed after bottling.

Next time, just blend in the boiled and cooled pistachio tea after primary is done.


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