Using juice instead of water for making beer...

[JSappenf]

So I have gotten it in my head that this might be a good idea and I was wondering if someone to talking me out of it. So I just had Sam Adam's White Christmas which has cinnamon and nutmeg. It is basically a white ale. I was wondering if I brewed a white ale with apple cider instead of water and then added cinnamon and nutmeg, if this would turn out.

 

[Randzor]

I'm not a beer maker, but wouldn't you have to boil it?

 

[JSappenf]

It was my intent to boil some in the wort, and then not boil the bit that I mix into my carboy.

 

[Randzor]

I'd stay away form boiling the apple juice but anything you top up maybe?

 

[girdwood]

I'm in for some answers... I've been thinking the same.

 

[jtratcliff]

don't forget to take into account the sugar in the apple juice...

look up cyser, melomel, pyment, etc.

There's probably something on a beer/cider hybrid our there already

 

[Brann_mac_Finnchad]

There is...it's called graff.

The way I did it is reduce the base malt (since you get maybe 40 points from the cider), mash as usual with water, then reduce the wort as much as possible (I went all the way to the point where it was syrup) and pitch with the apple juice.

Mind, this was with store bought (and pasteurized) cider, not the good fresh stuff.