NOISEpollution
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I've been brewing beer for a while now but wanted to brew a root beer. Any good places to start reading up on it? Any tips? Recipes? Any info helps.
I've been brewing beer for a while now but wanted to brew a root beer. Any good places to start reading up on it? Any tips? Recipes? Any info helps.
johnsma22 said:I've tried just about every root beer extract on the planet, along with just about every recipe with different combinations of sweeteners and ingredients to make what I consider to be a good root beer. All have fallen short of my expectations until I discovered Sprecher's root beer syrup!
Unfortunately it is based on high fructose corn syrup. It does seem to be one that everyone likes though.
I really think you are missing the point.Just so you know, table sugar (sucrose) is made up of 50% fructose and 50% glucose. High fructose corn syrup is processed to be about 90% fructose through a conversion process that utilizes enzymes to convert glucose into fructose, as corn does not contain any fructose. It is then blended down with untreated syrup (containing only glucose) into a mix of either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose. The rest is glucose, so there's only 10 percent more fructose in most high fructose corn syrup than there is in plain table sugar (less fructose than table sugar in some cases). Honey also has a similar fructose to glucose ratio of that of HFCS55. Honey has more fructose than HFCS42, as does table sugar. Seems like much ado about nothing.
Kingfish said:I really think you are missing the point.
High fructose corn syrup is like brewing with extract and cane sugar is brewing all grain. There IS a difference. I am starting to think about making root beer and I am considering using FRESH cane juice that I will boil down into a syrup.What point would that be?
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