joeyuwp

Recipes 

I had thought about a holiday brew next but I think that will wait until next year when it can have more time to marinate. What I do plan to do is an oatmeal stout and I was thinking about priming with brown sugar but I have a few questions on doing that. Any thoughts in general on doing this? Would this add any sort of flavor to the end product? I assume it would darken it a little. Also, would I use the same amount of brown sugar as I would corn sugar? Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

__________________
Primary - Empty
Secondary #1 - Patersbier
Secondary #2 - Empty
Bottled - Peanut Butter Pecan Porter, Strawberry Honey Wheat, Marzen, Brown
Forthcoming - Lemon/Lime Hefe

Baron von BeeGee

Recipes 

No idea about priming w/brown sugar, but I recently brewed the Dogfish Head Indian Nut Brown clone from the latest issue of byo which uses carmelized brown sugar in the mash. As luck would have it, we recently had our 6%abv cap lifted here in NC and I found this beer (7.2%) at a grocery store and bought some to sample. It prominently lists brown sugar as an ingredient and flavoring component, but courtesy of this *#$@ cold I can't taste a thing.

I suppose the safe thing to do would be to prime a sixer or so with the brown sugar, and then the rest of the batch with your normal priming sugar just as an experiment.

ScottT

Recipes 

Increase by 15% and you'll be fine.

In other words, how ever much corn sugar you usually use, multiply by 1.15 and that's how much brown sugar to use.

__________________
Scott

Primary: Empty

Secondary #2: Empty

Bottle Conditioning: Oatmeal Stout

Drinking from Keg: Ordinary Bitter, Kolsch

Drinking bottled: Brown Autumn Wee Heavy
Hefe Weizen
Peaches and Cream Weizen


"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!"
-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck.
Next up: Hefe Weizen

Walker

Recipes 

Hey there, BeeGee! Another brewer in Raleigh... sweet.

I tried sending a private message, but don't think I pulled it off right.

Anyway (sorry for the tangent taken here from the actual thread), but can you suggest some good pubs or breweries in the area (I just moved here.)

-walker

__________________
Ground Fault Brewing Co.
Proud member of the GRABASS Brewing Disorganization
Help me give childhood cancer the middle finger and donate to the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
If everybody here gave just $1, it would rattle the walls in a big way.