![]() Most often, hard seltzer is made by fermenting cane sugar, sometimes called a sugar wash, with water, yeast, and yeast nutrients. All of these names refer to the same thing – fizzy, carbonated water with alcohol in it. Hard seltzer goes by many names, including seltzer, spiked seltzer, alcoholic seltzer, alcoholic sparkling water, mature seltzer, adult seltzer, hard sparkling alcohol water, hard soda water, seltzer water, hard club soda, and others. The refreshing, hydrating feel of drinking hard seltzers when combined with the (at least perceived) health and weight loss benefits when compared to beer have made seltzer a popular drink that will likely remain widely consumed for a long time. These light, fizzy alcoholic beverages usually clock in at about 5% ABV and are relatively low-calorie when compared to beer or sugary cocktails. Hard seltzer is an alcoholic beverage made from carbonated water, alcohol, flavoring, and sometimes a bit of extra sugar or other sweetener to make it more palatable. There are a couple of ways to make it, which I’ll describe below. ![]() The batch that I used as the example for this article cost well under $10 to make for a 5-gallon batch. Like, close to free when you use the fermented option. Here’s the good news: it turns out that hard seltzer drinks are very easy to make, and EXTREMELY cheap. I keep an extra keezer in my home brewery for experimental beers or non-beer options for guests, so I had a few extra taps to play with to try out this popular trend anyway. Once it became impossible to ignore the popularity of hard seltzer, I decided to figure out how to make it myself. Somehow, that fizzy water with almost no ingredients in it costs as much as a decent craft beer. Sure, you don’t enjoy a seltzer in the way you can enjoy a great beer, but it’s hard to ignore that it is refreshing, light, and still has a little kick.Īs a homebrewer, my biggest issue with hard seltzer is the price. But there’s something else we have to face: the stuff just really isn’t that bad. Beer snobs like me often turn our noses up at people drinking fizzy, lightly flavored alcoholic water. As beer lovers, seltzer is a controversial topic at best.
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