Anyone try using agave extract?

[Frankdaatank24]

I love Patrone (one of the few hard liquors I drink), and was wondering, has anyone has ever tried using a blue agave extract in their homebrew?

 

[Bopper]

I've never tried it personally but here's a thread with some info to get you started:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/agave-syrup-108398/

I'll have to try this one of these days (the list of planned brews is LONG!)

 

[heywolfie1015]

Check out this recipe. Always seemed pretty tasty to me (although I haven't tried it).

 

[Zalaster]

Basic Brewing had a sugar experiment a year or so ago and one of the things they used was agave nectar/syrup. If I remember right they could not detect a noticeable taste from it. You might check their archives for the episode.

 

[Bopper]

Basic Brewing had a sugar experiment a year or so ago and one of the things they used was agave nectar/syrup. If I remember right they could not detect a noticeable taste from it. You might check their archives for the episode.

This is consistent with some of the posts from the thread I linked to above. Some people said there was a faint taste from the agave. No accounts of a bold flavor by anyone. The majority of the compounds in the nectar must ferment out.