Hard Seltzer?

[Beanhead]

Hi everyone,

Wondered if anyone has any experience of brewing a fizzy hard seltzer?

I have a few syrups and have always wondered if I could use these to brew out a basic fizzy watery alcohol?

Here's what I'm thinking:

1. Water (to make up just shy of 1 Gal/5ltrs)
2. Sugar
3. Flavoured syrup (the Lowicz/Monin variety)

The above boiled to kill anything and dissolve the sugar. Then cooled and yeast starter and cider yeast added to ferment out. Bottled with carbonation drops.

I guess my question is:

• Should I add the syrup at the boil stage or wait until conditioning to impart more flavour/colour?
• Would cider yeast be OK for something like this?
• Would making it fizzy, be exactly the same i.e. like priming a capped cider bottle?

It seems pretty straight forward on paper or am I overthinking it?

Thanks

 

[Chippy_Tea]

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/hard-seltzer-anyone.93848/
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/hard-seltzer-sense-check.95242/
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/wkd-blue-clone-hard-seltzer-not-so-easy.92910/
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/hard-seltzer-abv-calculation.97002/

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Just noticed this one has a recipe -

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/hard-seltzer-anyone.93848/