Priming for flavor

[voodoochild7]

I've made my maple pumpkin ale and it is in the secondary just about two weeks I'm probably going to do the bottling on Sunday. The I tried to get my kitchen smelling like the pumpkin pie grandma used to to make and succeeded in that respect. Here's my idea though. Granny used to put bourbon in her pumpkin pie. Just a bit for flavor. If I were to boil off most of the alcohol and used some Jack Daniels instead of water to cook my DME for priming how much do you think that would effect the taste. Also and more importantly if not all the alcohol boiled off would the alcohol effect my yeast at all or the conditioning.

 

[ScottT]

I've made my maple pumpkin ale and it is in the secondary just about two weeks I'm probably going to do the bottling on Sunday. The I tried to get my kitchen smelling like the pumpkin pie grandma used to to make and succeeded in that respect. Here's my idea though. Granny used to put bourbon in her pumpkin pie. Just a bit for flavor. If I were to boil off most of the alcohol and used some Jack Daniels instead of water to cook my DME for priming how much do you think that would effect the taste. Also and more importantly if not all the alcohol boiled off would the alcohol effect my yeast at all or the conditioning.

A small amount of alcohol will not hurt your yeast. If you boil the JD than you won't have any alcohol left in it anyway. Also, if your Granny cooked her pumpkin pie with the burbon in it here's didn't have any alcohol in it either.

 

[david_42]

A half cup of JD would add less than 0.2 ABV to your 5 gallon batch. I'd add it to the secondary.