Lowicz Syrup in Beer

[Brianbrewed]

Have just made a spice christmas ale that calls for adding cherry extract in secondary.
Unfortunately cannot find cherry extract so was going to use the cherry syrup you find in polish shops.
Has anybody any experience using this in a beer?

 

[Dutto]

Did this one and it was delicious!

WILCO PILSNER WITH LOWICZ CHERRY SYRUP
Started 29th August 2017
Adjunct of 1,200ml of Lowicz Cherry Syrup instead of sugar.
Yeast pitched at 24 degrees.
Fermented on worktop at ambient.
Transferred to King Keg 8th September 2017
OG 1.048
FG 1.010
ABV 5%
Tested 11th November and VERY nice. Slight “bitter” taste but still has Cherry Flavour to it.

Enjoy.

 

[Brianbrewed]

Did you prime with the 1200ml syrup?

 

[Dutto]

No. I used the 1200ml of Lowicz in place of the 1kg of sugar required by the kit and then batch primed with brewing sugar as I normally do.

 

[stan.distortion]

No. I used the 1200ml of Lowicz in place of the 1kg of sugar required by the kit and then batch primed with brewing sugar as I normally do.

Have you any idea roughly what percentage of total fermentables that would be? Sounds interesting, I've a bottle of that syrup here and very tempted to have a go at a small batch of AG with it :) It'd be more like a pale ale than a pilsner without putting in an order though, better to wait a while or might a pale ale work ok too?

Current plan:
10l batch:
2kg pale malt (minus whatever the syrup works out at)
12g mt hood @ 60min
12g mt hood @ 5min
US-05

Alternatives:
Hops: centennial, perle, magnum, golding
Yeasts: S-04, gervin GV12
Various crystals from pils to munich2 plus some roasted.

Thanks.

 

[Brianbrewed]

Have you any idea roughly what percentage of total fermentables that would be? Sounds interesting, I've a bottle of that syrup here and very tempted to have a go at a small batch of AG with it :) It'd be more like a pale ale than a pilsner without putting in an order though, better to wait a while or might a pale ale work ok too?

Current plan:
10l batch:
2kg pale malt (minus whatever the syrup works out at)
12g mt hood @ 60min
12g mt hood @ 5min
US-05

Alternatives:
Hops: centennial, perle, magnum, golding
Yeasts: S-04, gervin GV12
Various crystals from pils to munich2 plus some roasted.

Thanks.

I checked the bottle and there's about 84g of sugar per 100ml's.
I reckon 100ml would prime 19 litres

 

[dad_of_jon]

at the polish shop there was a syrup with 65G sugar per 100mls's rather than the 85g the lowice had. it was a more cherry concentrated product than the lowice. it still didn't have that cherry kick I wanted. cherry brandy may be the way to go.

 

[Dutto]

I checked the bottle and there's about 84g of sugar per 100ml's.
I reckon 100ml would prime 19 litres

... or alternatively, replace the equivalent amount of sugar recommended for the main brew.

I used 1,200 ml which translates to 1,008g of sugar (84 x 112 = 1008).

at the polish shop there was a syrup with 65G sugar per 100mls's rather than the 85g the lowice had. it was a more cherry concentrated product than the lowice. it still didn't have that cherry kick I wanted. cherry brandy may be the way to go.

Again, agreed! The 1,200 ml of Lowicz syrup gave the Pilsner a distinct cherry flavour but definitely not a "kick".

I normally use a Wilco Cerveza Kit for experimentation. (SWMBO bought this one!) A Cerveza Kit may have returned a more distinctive "cherry flavour" and also taken more syrup without becoming "falling down juice".