[HopDen]

Came across a recipe for apple molasses. Never heard of it. They basically take 2 gallons of unfiltered, unadulterated apple squeezings and boil hard to reduce to 1/7th of its original starting volume. Actually looks pretty amazing and the uses for it seem endless, at least in the article I read. So I was thinking that if I can add it to a cup of tea or a mixed drink I can add it into a beer recipe as a sugar addition. Question is... what style of beer would benefit from this apple molasses? Certainly a cider but I'm leaning towards beer. A Belgian perhaps? Maybe a fruity pilsner? Or possibly an Ale?

Thoughts?

[Iliff Ave]

Dubbel

[HopDen]

Dubbel

I'm in!!

[erockrph]

I've made my own apple molasses before, and it does pick up a bit of a "cooked" flavor from the extended boil (or at least mine did). I tried it as a backsweetener in a batch of cider, but that cooked flavor stuck out like a sore thumb to me. If I were brewing with it, i'd use it in a beer with some roasted/toasted notes to help that flavor blend in. Dubbel sounds interesting. I could see it working in something like a porter or stout as well.

The best place for it is on good vanilla ice cream, though. Second best place is an apple martini.

[House Of Ales]

Apple molasses. Interesting! Apple Cider time shortly.