Lage Line's book

[oldtimer]

Not sure if I am on the right site here.

But I have a question(s), I want to brew some ' Tiger ' Lager ( for the son-in-law. He drinks this Sh* t) As per Dave Line book, and the recipe calls for ten saccerine tablets during the whole brew. ( some of this is for priming as well). SO My question is..... A/ can you get saccerine tablets now ???????

And B/ is there an alternitive or will sugar of some description suffice ??

And has anyone else tried this recipe.

Or what comments can you make ?

[orlando]

If I'm reading this correctly the call for saccharine is to introduce sweetness rather than a fermentable sugar. If I'm right then any sweetener would work, with the caveat that the quantities are matched to the original. Sugar should be avoided as this will just ferment out raising alcohol level and making a thinner dryer beer.

I have to say using it for priming doesn't make sense to me, so maybe I'm missing something.

[Bryggmester]

A nunber of Dave Line's recipes from that book call for the addition of saccharine tablets, and this is indeed a way of sweetening rhe finished brew. I have heard iy said that in Dave Line's day much of the HB yeast available was c..p and tended to ferment out to quite a dry finish, and the sweeteners were a way of rectifying this. Back in the day I brewed a number of recipies from this book and always left out the sweeteners with no ill effects. I would say go ahead but just leave out the saccharine tablets.

[Rubbery]

You could use some Lactose for sweetening. I used 200g in 19L of Ginger Beer (half wort and half sugar) to take out the dryness.