Rice vs. Corn Syrup in Beer

MillerCoors uses dextrose or maltose for adjuncts in their flagship brands - those are not HFCS. The only HFCS I've seen listed on either the AB "Tap Into Your Beer" page or the MillerCoors pdf (where the below image is from) are in their FMBs and other flavored beers, obviously used as a sweetener, not a fermentable.

 

Maybe it increases the yeast obesity rate?

 

Not a television spot, but you don't have to wait:



And:

https://www.millercoorsblog.com/news/about-those-bud-light-ads/?sf207262738=1

 

Wow. Talk about stepping far from the original brewing process to create beer.

 

More taste? (assuming that would mean "flavor," of course) That's pretty arguable.

Makes you wonder... is this where BMC starts to attack each other, implode, and leave the good beer to the rest of us?

 

I'll take a Miller Lite over the Bud Light any day of the week. When I'm in the mood for a light, which ain't very often.

 

As I've been cutting back for Dry January into "wet" February, I'm surprised that Heineken Light tastes pretty good -- for a 3.3 ABV beer. I can't compare it to Miller or Bud Light(s) because I can't remember the last time I tried them (Bud Light maybe never), but I'm surprised that it tastes much better than non-alcohol beers I've tried.

 

I don't remember seeing that though it was(is) probably there.

 

Both Sierra Nevada and MillerCoors are broadly claiming that SN uses "sugar."

 

Yeah, while, it was obvious that some brewers in the US used some form of corn syrup (dextrose, glucose, grape sugar, etc.) by looking through industry publications and reading ads and labels of other brewers which proclaimed they didn't (perhaps the longest-lived one --- or maybe just my favorite?), AB's Busch Beer was one of the first beers I'd ever read about where the brewery itself admitted it.

In the period 1978-1979, Anhueser-Busch changed their regional popular-priced brand Busch Bavarian's recipe--- "the reformulated brew – called lighter and and sweeter” by spokesmen - uses corn syrup instead of corn grits in the brewing process” (according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time) ---- and slowly reintroduced it as Busch Beer, as well as expanding it's marketing area to eventually become national brand.

SN FAQ - What is bottle conditioning:

Don't have the actual recipe, but I'm thinking it probably doesn't equal 30-40% of the total fermentables that it likely does for Miller Lite and Coors Light

 

I'm surprised that you're surprised.

 

Nope. I don't remember seeing any brewer ever mention this on a list of ingredients with regard to bottle conditioning.

Sierra Nevada FAQ:

 

I'm not very keen on the large scale farming of corn we do today in the United States. It was one of the main causes of the collapse of the Mayan civilization.

"A major drought occurred about the time the Maya began to disappear. And at the time of their collapse, the Maya had cut down most of the trees across large swaths of the land to clear fields for growing corn to feed their burgeoning population. They also cut trees for firewood and for making building materials." - https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/06oct_maya

I mean I would hate to see the world burn because of such a worthless crop being over farmed. It basically makes a shit ton of soda, crappy beer, and animal feed. The human body doesn't process the stuff we just shit it out.

 

Isn't Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bottle-conditioned? Isn't the use of priming sugar standard practice for bottle conditioning? Isn't dextrose the most common form of priming sugar? Isn't corn the most common source of dextrose, at least in brewing? What is surprising here?

@jesskidden makes the good point that adding a little bit of priming sugar isn't quite the same thing as what the big AAL producers are doing with dextrose.

 

How do German brewers get away with bottle-conditioning Kellerbier and Weissbier if the traditions of the Reinheitsgebot exclude sugar? Do they simply add a small amount of addition malt after fermentation and before packaging?

 

Before I posted that link, I thought to myself: "Well, this is the first time I've seen marketing that grouped Miller Lite, SNPA, and Pliny together."

Sorry, I didn't notice that you beat me to the punch.