bank holiday brew

[beer]

hi all
did the usual bank holiday thing today traipsing round shops and in wilkos i went a bit nuts and decided to buy a edme superbrew bitter to use with some extra dark spray malt ive got that i didnt use on a previous brew . and also 1kg of demerara sugar
i thought lob it all in together with some safeale04 and see what happens then when i got home did think that 1 kg of sugar plus spray malt may be a bit much any thoughts

[Jerry Cornelius]

How much spray malt do you have? If you don't have 1 kg worth, I'd just add enough sugar to bring it up to the 1 kg mark.

I don't use sugar, only spray malt, because I've read that sugar can add a thin, cidery tatse to the beer. I haven't tried sugar (except for priming), so I have no empirical knowledge, i just go by the suggestions here.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

You'll probably find that 1KG of sugar will make the beer drink rather thin even with the spraymalt.

[Ditch]

hi all
did the usual bank holiday thing today traipsing round shops and in wilkos ..... any thoughts

Yes; Since when has a Sunday been a Bank Holiday?

[beer]

well spotted technically i meant to say sunday stuff (how much more interesting would sundays be ifwe could turn back the clock to pre sunday trading when the only shop open was the off licence)any way back to the job in hand ive got 500g extra dark spray malt 500g demerara sugar.Ive read people putting demerara sugar into stout any ideas on how it would turn out like.

[Ditch]

No idea at all, I'm afraid, mate. I dare say I could formulate the basis of an educated guess, if I read enough posts on here? But I don't Bull like that.

I guess, if ye the first person we know to be trying it? There's ye job; You tell Us!

[beer]

will report back when its done

[beer]

hi all just reporting back on the bank holiday brew which turned out not to be a bank holiday brew at all as i didn't get round to doing it until the 27 just taken a reading and had a taste it started at 1040 and its at 1012 now tastes quite nice has a kind of toffee hint to it.

[beer]

hello all just had a cupple of pints of the above and is very nice quite impresed a very easy drinking pint onley down side not a lot of head but for he money and time spent very good

[Ditch]

Nice work, Beer! That doesn't sound bad at all! Hell; I may even take a note of ye 'recipe' and try one myself some time. " Toffee " ? I like the sound of that

Cheers!