Comment on Spruce tip beer ('tis the season)
MuteDog@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe ultimate extraction would likely be achieved with high proof alcohol. Sugar syrup I think would be less effective than with dry sugar as the dry sugar would exert more osmotic pressure on the tips to draw liquid (and thus flavor) out of the tips.
You can also add them to the boil as you would hops.
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Overcooled sugar syrup (what people usually make by heating sugar in water and then cooling down) would technically be a suspension of sugar nanoparticles in saturated syrup. This should totally be more potent for chemical extraction than pure sugar, even after extraction of fluids into it which could only saturate it into syrup phase.
Throwing alcohol into beer preparation souds like illegal move in Finland an USA afaik, LOL
MuteDog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not illegal in the US for homebrewers, it would be for a commercial brewery (though they can buy vanilla extract which uses alcohol for the extraction and use that with no issues), in reality no one is checking this stuff and there’s probably a lot a commercial brewery can get away with that is technically illegal, just put spruce tips on the label, no one cares/asks how it was extracted.