Artificial sweetners

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Do you add sweetners?

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johnmac
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Artificial sweetners

Post by johnmac » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:18 am

Dave Line advocated adding sweetener tablets for most of his recipes.

Is this still done?

Does any commercial brewery do this? If they do, I bet the head brewer sneaks the stuff in after everyone else has gone home!

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Post by iowalad » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:21 am

I used lactose in a milk stout once. I over did it!

steve_flack

Post by steve_flack » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:19 am

Some of the more commercial Belgian fruit beers use sweeteners (saccharin). I prefer those beers sour myself.

Personally, I've never used saccharin. I've also never brewed a Dave Line recipe so that maybe why.

mysterio

Post by mysterio » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:55 pm

Some of the more commercial Belgian fruit beers use sweeteners (saccharin). I prefer those beers sour myself.
Like canned Mort Subite kriek, you can really taste the saccharin in that and it's disgusting.

prolix

Post by prolix » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:46 am

if I want it sweeter I mash it higher with a touch more malt

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