Will using LDM for priming change / improve / effect flavour?

[trustyrusty]

Hi I was just looking a recipe where someone used LDM - I had the same recipe except for LDM... I was wondering if I used that in priming would that perhaps have the same effect if using in first fermentation?

And based on answer is LDM a good primer for improving beer..I would assume you must get a maltier flavour?

I assume you boil the LDM and cool?

Thanks

 

[Lecterfan]

You will get very little flavour from the priming sugar unless you use something weird and wild like molasses (not recommended). Whatever flavour you do/might get from your choice of riming sugar (LDM, brown sugar, dextrose, table sugar, etc) is basically insignificant compared to the main ingredients and fermentation. You certainly cannot prime with LDM and hope that it has anything like the effect of actually brewing/fermenting with LDM.

If you are doing a kit and kilo, then a kilo of malt instead of a kilo of table sugar will go some way in improving the beer (assuming you look after the ferment by keeping the temperature stable and suitable for the yeast you use etc). By "improve"I mean that it will change the flavour (as opposed to a kilo of table sugar) by making it maltier, will give it ore body, and will give the yeast something far more suitable to produce alcohol with than sugar (in terms of making beer). Good luck.

 

[trustyrusty]

Thanks - sorry I meant - DME .... is that different to what you say? cheers

 

[Lecterfan]

Nope. Light Dry Malt Extract or table sugar, castor sugar, icing sugar, brown sugar, demerara sugar used to prime beer will have an insignificant effect on the flavour of the beer compared to your main ingredients and ferment temperature. If you use molasses or treacle or similarly strong flavoured, dark sugars you will see, smell, and taste a slight difference.

There are arguments that you might get a slightly different looking head with different sugars..tighter bubbles or bigger bubbles or stuff like that, but I think most of the BS. Use malt as the main ingredient in your beer and then you will notice a difference.

Unless you are priming with crazy amounts of sugar or very strong/weird sugars, what you use to prime with has negligible effect on the flavour of the final product. It is certainly not a replacement or substitute for brewing with malt as the main ingredient.

 

[JDW81]

DME/LDME/LME/LDM - same product, different name.

JD

 

[Coodgee]

You'll get a little scum ring at the surface of the beer because carbonation with dme creates a little krausen.

 

[SBOB]

Whatever flavour you do/might get from your choice of riming sugar

well i guess thats one way to mask the taste

 

[Lecterfan]

Rimming sugar = making shit bearable.

 

[timmi9191]

I would suspect getting the ldme fully dissolved into a bottle of room temp beer will dampen your enthusiasm..

 

[kunfaced]

I've been rimming sugar since '98, but makes shitting impossible...

 

[Camo6]

I've been rimming sugar since '98, but makes shitting impossible...

Impressive, but my LHBS has been shelving LDME since opening their door.