agave sweetner

[edwatters]

Has anyone used agave sweetner instead of sugar in their mash for the t500?

[chill]

Looked at it thinking of Tequila, but the price drove me away. It would work OK, just not sure if the taste would justify the cost.

[edwatters]

I have access to it fairly cheap but I don't have a clue of how much I would need for a 5 gallon batch of mash, any ideas?

[chill]

Is there nutrition information on it? In Canada it would list a serving size and for that would indicate how much of that was sugar. e.g. a Serving size of 20g and of that 18g is sugar. 18/20 = 90% sugar. So 1 Kg of Agave Sweetener would be the same as 900g of white sugar. You probably want around the equivalent of 5Kg of sugar for 5 gallons (23 litres). So you will need to figure out the sugar content and calculate how much of the sweetener you need.


Chuck

[edwatters]

Thank you for that quick response I well look at the label. Here is a pic of the label. I see that it has 16 grams of sugar per tablespoon and there are 49 tablespoons per container. 784 grams of sugar total

[KerryW]

I found some at Costco 736 ml bottle which seems to equate to 30mlper serving
1 serving = 30 g
I will use it at 736 g per bottle and adjust sugars added to my wash
I hope it has a good flavor.

[wormwood]

I did a wash using this stuff:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Organic-Agave ... z/14150056

I used a bottle of this to about 3.3 lbs of sugar in a 3 gallon wash. Stripped it to give me a gallon for a spirit run. Didn't really taste like tequila, but was quite pleasant in its own right. Maybe an agave rum?

[RumJohn]

Rum must be made from a sugar cane based product. You can not make rum from sugar beets for example. Nor agave syrup. That gives you mescal. If from a certain area in Mexico it can be called Tequila.

[wormwood]

Well it was made from cane sugar with agave syrup. I don't know what that makes it. It certainly wasn't tequila, as that has a very strict definition based on place of origIn. Not really mescal either. Agave sugar head doesn't sound too catchy, but I'm not sure what else to call it.