alternate sugars

[tezerh]

hi folks

i was just wondering i was in the local last night paying silly taxes on beer whiles chatting to the locals, an we brought up the subject of homebrewing we was talking about sugars in short as this was a very late and drunken conversation ooooh err :sick:

standard beer kits require 1kg of brewing sugar to make the beer ferment however it is possible to use alternate sugar such as black treacle, honey, golden syrup ect. whats the conversion from weights to liquids? eg a recipy requires 1kg of brewing sugar what would that be in cups ect

if you used a kilo in weight of syrup you would get a very volatile fermentation an a beer so sweet it would be like mead!

 

[SamWise72]

No, you wouldn't. Syrup actually has LESS sugar per kilo than sugar (if you think about it, it has to have water in it to become syrup). There's nothing more fermentable per kilo than plain white sugar.

 

[tezerh]

well i suppose raw sugar is raw sugar never thought of it like that i have always thought of any kind of treacle golden or black to be concentrated sugar.

how would i use treacle in a kit brew i'm curious as i am looking round bootsales for a brew pot for another project in the mean time i want to experiment with taking the basic taste away from beer kits i find they all taste the same when you use youngs brewing sugar

 

[Hollow Legs]

i want to experiment with taking the basic taste away from beer kits i find they all taste the same when you use youngs brewing sugar

tezerh - why not try Beer Enhancer which you buy in a bag already made up and is half malt extract and half Dextrose(brewing sugar) or you can buy just spray malt and sugar, experiment it's what it's all about, look at past posts and take tips from them that's what I've done and I'm really happy with the way my beer is coming on.

Good luck buddy

Colin.

 

[graysalchemy]

If you use sugar in your brewing it will ferment out completely and whilst it will convert all to alcohol it will not add any body top your beer. If you use a tin of Malt extract or dry malt extract powder then you will add body to the beer as well as alcohol producing a better more rounded beer.


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