Instead of sugar.....

[chopperswookie]

i know this might offend the purists and laugh at me if you want, i am a novice to homebrewing but could you use a bottle of shandy instead of sugar during primary?

the only reason i ask is i bought a bottle of shandy from the local spar, 89p bargain, and it tastes like the bitter i made on my very first homebrew. i was thinking with the sugar content and the fact its made with bitter hence hops and barley it would work, wouldn't it?

[monkey_doctor]

hey CW, im not sure i understand what you are wanting to do with this shandy.

BTW - what make is the shandy? - just curious

[chopperswookie]

spar's own make

thinking of doing a bitter again. when doing a brew pour the wort out of the can then instructions are for 1kg sugar or malt extract or beer enhancer etc. i was just thinking of adding the shandy instead of sugar coz the sugar levels will be the same and it might work as cheap beer enhancer. that was my thinking

[bitter_dave]

It's an interesting idea, but wouldn't you have to use huge quantities of shandy to have equivalent of 1 KG of sugar? I'm also not convinced it would be cheaper than dried malt extract; as for the flavour it would give I'm not sure....

Hmmm

[Kev.]

thinking of adding the shandy instead of sugar coz the sugar levels will be the same

Same as what? 1kg of sugar......somehow I don't think so

[mysterio]

You'll probably need something like 10 litres of shandy to equate to a kilo of sugar. The latter will taste marginally less bad, you should really use some malt extract unless cost takes priority over taste.