Maintaining sweetness with Live Yeast

sharingan

Hi Guys,
I do a bit of unconventional brewing (Ginger Beer, Elderflower, 'rustic' brews etc.).

I don't kill the yeast when I am done, and I do some simple sugar priming to carbonate the bottles.

One issue I face is that my brews in general taste better when they are sweet. However its not realistic for me to refrigerate everything, and I am looking for tips to maintain some sweetness in the beverage.

I am wondering if anyone could share some ideas on this? I have experimented with using different sugars or sugar blends that the yeast cannot metabolise (e.g. Honey, unrefined sugar and molasses). Is there any others that I could use?

BeerNut

Splenda.

thelynchfella

+1 on the splenda.....i load the stuff in if i want to make sweet ciders

sharingan

Thanks guys. Been too process minded lately, never would have thought of the obvious choices.

rubadub

Splenda is sucralose based by the way, there are a few types of artificial sweetner out there but I much prefer sucralose. Tesco premium diet cola has sucralose and is nice, M&S do too. I think some other brands are changing over to sucralose too.