Substitute for light brown sugar?

[simon04]

I'm putting together a quick brew to use up some ingredients, before I reorder.

The recipe I have asks for 250g of light brown sugar, but I would prefer to use grain.

I do have some caravienne malt left too. Would this be a suitable substitute?

Thanks for your ideas.

 

[RobWalker]

what's it for? I like to just go with recipes but using something like caravienne is changing it considerably to the point where i'd prefer to just leave it out...

 

[PD]

you could always up your base malt by a couple of hundred grams and then add a darker malt to adjust the color, like roasted barley or chocolate or crystal...

 

[simon04]

It's this brew I'm making again....

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=38169

I'm not even bothered if the colour is a bit lighter. I do also have 200g pale malt spare, and some Medium DME.

If the worst comes to the worst, I will just use the light brown sugar. Just would prefer to try a substitute.....

 

[graysalchemy]

I would put the recipe into brewing software and take out the sugar and up the pale malt to get the gravity points and/or the DME.

 

[RobWalker]

why not use 1/4 the amount of molasses or treacle? less fermwntable sugar, same flavour...

 

[graysalchemy]

why not use 1/4 the amount of molasses or treacle? less fermwntable sugar, same flavour...

Because the OP said

but I would prefer to use grain.

:whistle: :whistle:

 

[RobWalker]

i see that - but there's a lot less fermentable sugar in there for the same flavour, which I guess is the problem. light brown sugar just has a light degree of molasses flavour, a concentrated few spoonfuls may solve the problem and you can make up the fermentables with grain!

 

[IPA]

I'm putting together a quick brew to use up some ingredients, before I reorder.

The recipe I have asks for 250g of light brown sugar, but I would prefer to use grain.

I do have some caravienne malt left too. Would this be a suitable substitute?

Thanks for your ideas.

If you do use sugar try Sainsbury's Light Soft Brown Fairtrade Sugar it is almost white in colour and I find it makes great beer.