Sprite In The Home Brew

[Shed101]

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I like Gatorade, the mix it up cordial type powder.

I am thinking dump some in my next brew and, as if magic, a 'sports beer' !!!

Sports beer! Its gotta be great! been running, thirsty? need hydrating? SPORTS BEER!

**** it, I am gonna try it.

Excellent ... please drink it in the following manner

 

[Braumoasta]

:icon_offtopic:

I like Gatorade, the mix it up cordial type powder.

I am thinking dump some in my next brew and, as if magic, a 'sports beer' !!!

Sports beer! Its gotta be great! been running, thirsty? need hydrating? SPORTS BEER!

**** it, I am gonna try it.

Now that is the idea of a thinking man!! :icon_drunk:

 

[peaky]

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I like Gatorade, the mix it up cordial type powder.

I am thinking dump some in my next brew and, as if magic, a 'sports beer' !!!

Sports beer! Its gotta be great! been running, thirsty? need hydrating? SPORTS BEER!

**** it, I am gonna try it.

If a CUB brewer sees this it'll be the next thing you see on the shelves at Woolworths Liquor....... in between the VB Gold and Pure Blonde......

 

[dr K]

Well may you scoff, but Sprite actually works !
Forget the sugar, Sprite contains a synthetic flavour very close (close enough to work) to the flavo-active ingredient in Barberries. Barberries have been used for possibly thousands of years as a wine adjunct, first by the Persians and some say even today by the very best first growth Bordeaux's. They were almost certainly used as a bittering (or tarting) agent in the beers of ancient Sumeria. A quick google will fill you in.

 

[Shed101]

Well may you scoff, but Sprite actually works !
Forget the sugar, Sprite contains a synthetic flavour very close (close enough to work) to the flavo-active ingredient in Barberries. Barberries have been used for possibly thousands of years as a wine adjunct, first by the Persians and some say even today by the very best first growth Bordeaux's. They were almost certainly used as a bittering (or tarting) agent in the beers of ancient Sumeria. A quick google will fill you in.

Hurrah for Google!

But why would we want to put a synthetic wine adjunct (along with all sort of other ****) in beer?

And why not just use barberries - they're not that hard to come by I have some on the shelf?