Priming with Maple syrup (help?/advice)

Alehouserock · Aug 15, 2010

I am making 2 batches of Christmas beer and was planning on priming a "reserve" batch with Maple syrup.

Has anyone primed with it?

From reading "How to brew" I would get more Maple Flavor with "Grade B"...right?

When I actually make my priming solution, I would boil the syrup in 3 cups water for 10 minutes minutes, cool, and add to my bottling bucket just ahead of the beer just like with corn sugar right?

BrettV · Aug 16, 2010

Grade B has the most pronounced flavor. To be honest, though, I'm not sure how much maple flavor will come out from just priming with it. Because maple has a relatively delicate flavor profile, Papazian suggests using a gallon or more in a batch to get real maple flavor. But having never done it myself, I'm only hypothesizing. I would imagine it would be subtle.

prosper · Aug 16, 2010

depends on the base beer. However, you're DEFINITELY going to need more than just a priming amount to get any sort of maple flavour. I made a maple robust porter with about 3qt of dark maple syrup, and you can barely tell it's there. You certainly wouldn't detect 'maple' unless I told you it was in there.

I imagine it would be a different story in a cream ale or light lager, though.

Alehouserock · Aug 16, 2010

Damn, maybe I should do this in reverse then.

This is a Belgian style spiced Christmas beer.

passedpawn · Aug 16, 2010

I used several pounds of maple syrup once. It was totally undetectable. An expensive mistake that i won't repeat.

Alehouserock · Aug 16, 2010

Wow, I am glad I asked.

This thing is in secondary. Probably no chance to make a "reserve" I probably wouldn't want to dry hop a christmas beer.

biochemedic · Aug 17, 2010

Alehouserock said:
Wow, I am glad I asked.

This thing is in secondary. Probably no chance to make a "reserve" I probably wouldn't want to dry hop a christmas beer.

It depends...I dry hop cascades in my spiced christmas beer, and I kind of like it that way...

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