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Maintaining sweetness with Live Yeast

  • 18-08-2011 6:20pm
    #1
    sharingan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,
    I do a bit of unconventional brewing (Ginger Beer, Elderflower, 'rustic' brews etc.).

    I don't kill the yeast when I am done, and I do some simple sugar priming to carbonate the bottles.

    One issue I face is that my brews in general taste better when they are sweet. However its not realistic for me to refrigerate everything, and I am looking for tips to maintain some sweetness in the beverage.

    I am wondering if anyone could share some ideas on this? I have experimented with using different sugars or sugar blends that the yeast cannot metabolise (e.g. Honey, unrefined sugar and molasses). Is there any others that I could use?


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  • #2
    BeerNut
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Splenda.

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  • #3
    thelynchfella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭thelynchfella


    +1 on the splenda.....i load the stuff in if i want to make sweet ciders


  • #4
    sharingan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭sharingan


    Thanks guys. Been too process minded lately, never would have thought of the obvious choices.


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Splenda is sucralose based by the way, there are a few types of artificial sweetner out there but I much prefer sucralose. Tesco premium diet cola has sucralose and is nice, M&S do too. I think some other brands are changing over to sucralose too.


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