Comments on: Make vanilla sugar

By: ian

ian — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:27:15 +0000

Hi Elle – I don;t use a specific ratio, I just add sugar until it look right. Sometimes it’s too strong and needs to be diluted, sometimes it’s too weak and needs a second round of beans.

Here’s a great tip: use a colander to separate the sugar and beans.

By: Elle

Elle — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:10:05 +0000

What ratio of beans to sugar would you use? Does it change if the beans were previously used to make extract?

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:41:40 +0000

Sounds like a great sugar to use in home brewed root beer. I can’t stand the alcohol-based vanilla extracts, nor the fake stuff.

I do like the flavor of A&W root beer, which supposedly uses aged vanilla. Wouldn’t mind trying to replicate their recipe. The pre-made root beer extracts just don’t do it for me.

By: MommaBlogger

MommaBlogger — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:40:06 +0000

I let my beans dry for a few days and put them in with the sugar, but when I went to check the sugar, it was kind of clumpy like there was still some moisture in the bag. I know the vanilla sugar I got from Penzey’s was the same, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to dry it out a little more, or if I just have to try to use it up really fast. (I used a whole 5 lb. bag of sugar).

By: Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:10:59 +0000

A more appropriate question, Tracy, would be “what DON’T you use vanilla sugar for?” Seriously, vanilla sugar is useful stuff. I usually just stick spent beans down in my sugar canister and flavor/scent ALL of my sugar with them. That sugar gets used in everything, including priming my homebrew for bottle conditioning!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:50:36 +0000

What do you use vanilla sugar for? Thanks!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:29:08 +0000

What do you use vanilla sugar for?