What sugar for Brewferm Framboise please?

[drbell]

Since going to Brussels, my missus has been pestering me to make her some fruit beer. Im finally going to give Brewferm Framboise a go. I intend to make up 2 kits together to fill my 25 litre bucket. (I'm guessing there will be too much headspace if I only make one kit?) This will be the first kit I have made that requires extra sugar.

I know people have made lots of suggestions regarding what sugar to add to various traditional beers to give them more flavour, but I don't want to give this fruit beer too much depth. A nice simple light flavour is what is desired. I'm thinking brewers sugar would be fine in this instance. Am I right, or has anyone got any suggestions for something better please?

[mysterio]

Fruit beers tend to have a lot of acidity, and when combined with an overly thin body and carbonation can be quite biting. At the same time though you don't want it thick and cloying. I think I would be tempted to go with a half and half mix of wheat DME (or light DME) and table sugar.

[steve_flack]

If you want the more tart fruit beer, I found the Cherry Active juice concentrates to give a very nice cherry flavour. You do need a lot though - I ended up using a 1L pack in 20L just to give a decent cherry flavour. That's about £20 worth of cherry concentrate

I added them in the corni keg so you could use them to prime with if you're kegging - keep an eye on the pressure though.

Edit: Of course, framboise is raspberry - not cherry. Cherry is Kriek.

[oblivious]

Brouwland sells Brewferm sour cherries (4kg) for around 14 euro

[drbell]

Thanks for the replies. Im keen to stck to the basic kit for now, so I'll probably order some LME, and use half that, and half the brewing sugar I already have. (unless anyone has any reason this is a bad idea?)

Do I use 500g of LME instead of 500g of sugar, or does the weight change.

[Typhoon Tyke]

I've had a similar request to try one of these kits for someone. I'm not really a fruit beer type and haven't much idea about them.

Did you go through with the brew and what sugars did you use?

How did it turn out?

Any advice from your experience would be appreciated.

Cheers

[Mogwyth]

I think the correct sugar to use for all Brewferm beers is Candy Sugar, which is available from quite few HB shops, or you can make it yourself google for instructions or the nearest high street equivalent is good old Golden Syrup, which is what I have used in my Diabolo not ready yet but a sample while bottling wasn't bad.

[oblivious]

If its something like a triple or blond beer then save you money and use straight table sugar, its what brewers do. A dubbel or a strong dark can benefit for the dark candi syrup that's available, but its a little pricey