Adding Sorghum

[lewisjt]

I have a family friend who grows sorghum and processes it into syrup. He gave me 2 quarts of the stuff and asked me to make a beer with it. I was thinking of making a brown ale or something easy and adding the stuff into the boil at 60 minutes..

Does anyone have any experience using it in recipes or have any advice? Should it be added at the beginning of the boil? Could it be added to the fermenter?

My limited research has shown that people use it for making a gluten free beer, which I am not interested in. I would like a good tasting beer I can take back to my friend to enjoy.

Any advice is welcome, thanks.

 

[lewisjt]

Just an update in case anyone stumbles across this. I ended up splitting a 5 gallon batch of of Lil' Sparky's Nut Brown, and adding a quart of the sorghum to half. It was the first time I brewed this recipe so I wanted to be able to compare what the sorghum addition would be like compared to the original recipe. The original recipe turned out great, and I have since brewed again.

The sorghum addition turned out terrible. The sorghum flavor was overbearing. I added the sorghum to the fermenter 3 days after I added yeast. In the future I plan I boiling 1 quart with a 5 gallon batch. I will update this thread in case anyone stumbles across it.