Rice syrup

[Jkstone]

So, I've happened upon 25 gallons of 42de clear rice syrup. A woman had it for candy making and decided to go a different direction. Surely I can use it for beer brewing somehow. My question is how do I best use it?

 

[BenVanned]

No idea. You should probably experiment with small batches.

 

[PT Ray]

Use it in place of sugar. It'll have it's own unique quality, you'll just have to try it out. Supposedly it doesn't dry the beer out as much as sugar.

 

[Jkstone]

Like in place of priming sugar? I usually don't use priming sugar since I keg.

 

[Malticulous]

Make some cream ales, CAPs or other American lagers. Use it up to 30%. You can sneak 10% into about any beer without it being too noticeable.

 

[PT Ray]

In a broad sense when you see a recipe that calls for candy, brown, corn, cane or invert sugar you can use rice syrup. You could also use it in place of honey, flaked maize or rice. Or you could make some rice wine.

 

[daksin]

The first thing that springs to mind is a BMC clone, but not sure why anybody would want that, but it would be a cool thing to experiment with.

 

[fxdude]

I made an American lager which called for about a pound of rice syrup. I looked all over and couldn't find rice syrup so I just used rice syrup solids from my local brew shop. It basically ups the alcohol content without adding any additional flavor (besides the additional flavor from upping the alcohol).