spray malt instead of sugar

[AVFC BREWER]

Hiya ive decided to use spray malt instead of sugar as i want a beer with more body. Going to move my brew from my FV to my barrel in next few days(been in FV for 8 days). Do i mix the spray malt with boiling water then add to the barrel then siphon brew into barrel or jus mix it in FV then siphon off. Will there be enough carbonation from spray malt or will i need to add co2 or anything else? Also if i want to bottle from the barrel after a week or so would i need to prime each bottle or add more sugar/malt to barrel beforehand cheers.

 

[Runwell-Steve]

If you are just using Spray Malt to prime rather than sugar you will not notice any difference in the body in the beer.

The time to use spraymalt instead of sugar is when making the 1 can kits, where it tells you to add 1Kg of sugar, at that point you would replace it with 1Kg of spraymalt.

For priming you are only going to use about 100g of sugar ofr spraymalt so the difference in taste ill be negligible.

For priming in the barrel I just put the sugar or spraymalt in the barrel dry, then add the beer, some people prefer to boil it in some water first to sanitise it.

If you then want to transfer to bottle you will need to add a bit of priming sugar to the bottles.

 

[BrewDan]

Steve can you do a straight swap when fermenting,and achieve the same abv, or would you need to add slightly more spray malt than you would do using sugar alone... ?

I thought spray malt was not as fermentable as sugar

 

[Runwell-Steve]

The amount of fermentables in SprayMalt and Cane Sugar is almost identical, so you can do a straight swap.

I think the difference is that Spraymalt has about 2% less fermentables by weight than sugar, so it's a minimal difference.

 

[AVFC BREWER]

perhaps ill hold onto my spray malt til next brew then and use sugar this time round then is the sugar i use jus bog standard sugar and is it the same sugar for priming bottles cheers

 

[GavH]

If the original 'recipe' calls for 500g Spraymalt, 300g of Sugar, what effect will adding 1kg of spraymalt have?

I'm looking at doing a Coopers Irish Stout. Recipe calls for light spraymalt but I'm going to use Extra Dark spraymalt and wondering what will happen if I use 1 kg rather than 500g in addition to 300g of brown cane sugar.

I expect OG will be higher as will ABV? I also expect the end product to be darker but otherwise I'm unsure what to expect?