Sweetness

[Dawggy_Stile]

Just did my first all grain batch.
At the beginning of the boil I added 2.5 pounds of corn sugar. The gravity sample that I tasted was very sweet.
After fermentation, will some of the sweetness balance out with others flavors?

 

[arturo7]

What was your recipe?

 

[Revvy]

Of course. First, if the majoirty of your sugars (including the sugar you converted during the mash process) are fermentable, then those will be eaten by the yeast and turn into alcohol. That's the whle purpose of the yeast, to turn sweet wort into beer. Secondly if this was a preboil grav sample you also haven't added the hops yet, so you are getting the cut of the sweetness that you get from the bittering addition.

Now if that were 2.5 pounds of LACTOSE on the other hand, which is unfermentable, that would be a different story.