WiseIrishman
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Long story short, I want to prime my grapefruit wheat beer with lemonade.
I've recently been playing with fruit beers, one of which is a grapefruit wheat. I tasted the beer after 6 days over fresh squeezed (after campden tablets and freezing, of course) grapefruit juice in secondary and the flavor was pretty good... but I think I could improve it with a little hint of lemon.
I've been able to find a few threads on priming with juice but I was hoping for a few more testimonials. My plan is to prime using lemonade rather than the usual sugar. The lemonade that I prefer has a short ingredient list of water, cane sugar, lemon juice, and lemon juice from concentrate. I've fermented this juice with some champagne yeast and it makes for a great alternative to Mikes Hard Lemonade, by the way.
There's 25 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving. Could I basically do a straight conversion to the correct amount of cane sugar needed, assuming most of the sugar is fermentable?
(By the way, the other flavors I am trying with this wheat beer are peach, raspberry, and green apple. Pretty excited about the peach and raspberry!!!)
I've recently been playing with fruit beers, one of which is a grapefruit wheat. I tasted the beer after 6 days over fresh squeezed (after campden tablets and freezing, of course) grapefruit juice in secondary and the flavor was pretty good... but I think I could improve it with a little hint of lemon.
I've been able to find a few threads on priming with juice but I was hoping for a few more testimonials. My plan is to prime using lemonade rather than the usual sugar. The lemonade that I prefer has a short ingredient list of water, cane sugar, lemon juice, and lemon juice from concentrate. I've fermented this juice with some champagne yeast and it makes for a great alternative to Mikes Hard Lemonade, by the way.
There's 25 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving. Could I basically do a straight conversion to the correct amount of cane sugar needed, assuming most of the sugar is fermentable?
(By the way, the other flavors I am trying with this wheat beer are peach, raspberry, and green apple. Pretty excited about the peach and raspberry!!!)