Hi,
a friend of my dads from work is into his brewing in a big way and said that he primes with honey. I think he said to use half the amount of honey vs sugar that you would normally prime with.
Does anyone have experience in doing this and is it recommended?
Cheers,
Sam
Honey?
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EoinMag
Re: Honey?
mozza wrote:Hi,
a friend of my dads from work is into his brewing in a big way and said that he primes with honey. I think he said to use half the amount of honey vs sugar that you would normally prime with.
Does anyone have experience in doing this and is it recommended?
Cheers,
Sam
It can take quite a while longer to prime than with sugar. It's alright, you do get a flavour of honey coming out of it, but it's very very mild. Personally I'd not bother and just use sugar or malt , it's ready faster.
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wilsoa11111
Re: Honey?
agreed, not alot of flavour but useful in lighter beers, u will if anything need more honey vs dry sugar as some water in the honey
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jmc
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Re: Honey?
I think honey is about 80% sugar, so you'd need to add 25% more than normal sugar to prime
Some people pasturise honey at about 80C for 15mins to be on the safe side, though that does risk losing honey-aroma.
If you want to get more of a honey flavour you can add (a lot more) at secondary stage after main ferment has died down.
I've pasteurized when I've done this and it works quite well.
Honey is very good with a UK or Belgian blonde ale.
Some people pasturise honey at about 80C for 15mins to be on the safe side, though that does risk losing honey-aroma.
If you want to get more of a honey flavour you can add (a lot more) at secondary stage after main ferment has died down.
I've pasteurized when I've done this and it works quite well.
Honey is very good with a UK or Belgian blonde ale.