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Ingredients / birch syrup

« on: January 09, 2010, 12:25:57 pm »

I'm fermenting a lightly smoked porter with juniper berries and white pepper right now and I'd like to add birch syrup since the whole idea is to create a great apres ski beer.  The only info I can find on using birch syrup in beer (vs making a birch beer) is that the DFH/SN collaboration added it at bottling, which I assume helps prevent all the birch flavor from fermenting out.  My mom's going to send me some mid-run birch syrup from Alaska, but I have no idea how much to use for a 5 gallon batch.  Has any one else ever used birch syrup?  Maybe something similar added at bottling?  Any help will be very appreciated!