fruit flavor oil

cell · Aug 9, 2009

I was looking for fruit extract for beer and this caught my attention: Flavor Oils,
Nature's Flavors : Pure Fruit Flavor Oil

They says it's more concentrated than the actual fruit extract and the flavor is 60 000 times stronger than the fruit itself. Sounds like the cheap alternative to the unlabeled fruit extract from most LHBS.

Martin2D · Aug 9, 2009

Holy prices batman.

robertjohnson · Aug 9, 2009

Hmm...it sounds like you'd have to make it water soluble by mixing it with arabic gum. I wonder if that could adversely affect the final beer. I've heard oils can go rancid and are less stable in beer, but it sounds like it's exactly what goes into it anyway when you use any other fruit flavoring. If you could make it water soluble by mixing it with alcohol instead of arabic gum, then you might be on to something.

Oldsock · Aug 10, 2009

Martin2D said:
Holy prices batman.

I think the prices are pretty reasonable if you believe their 60,000X strength claim. I mean one 16 oz bottle contains the flavor of 7,500 gallons of fruit.

The Pol · Aug 10, 2009

I have heard not so good things about fruit extracts, why not use real fruit?

Also, these are oils... and candy flavorings at that. There are other ways to save money on brewing, I dont know that Id go to this extreme.

Revvy · Aug 10, 2009

robertjohnson said:
Hmm...it sounds like you'd have to make it water soluble by mixing it with arabic gum. I wonder if that could adversely affect the final beer. I've heard oils can go rancid and are less stable in beer, but it sounds like it's exactly what goes into it anyway when you use any other fruit flavoring. If you could make it water soluble by mixing it with alcohol instead of arabic gum, then you might be on to something.

That is a big issue, you don't want oil based extracts. Oil and head retention don't mix. You want alcohol based extract, not oil.

Unfortunately I am sitting on a bottle of orange oil extract because I got all excited thinking I finally found good orange flavoring.

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