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Are liqueur bases such as EziBase really that much better than using sugar syrup?

a sugar wash is for quantity not quality in the old days people distilled sugar mashes just to make extra bucks but it did not taste right so they added a fruit mixture...

I think EziBase is a thickening sweetner for making liqueurs, nothing to do with a sugar wash.
I just dissolve some sugar with a little water, does the job for me.

Probably a difference in sweetness, I assume this was not about washes

Sorry, I should have made my question more clear. I was meaning the sweetener that's used to turn neutral spirit into liquer in conjunction with essence.

I whould thank that it whould be basically glycerin, used to thicken and give "mouth" feel, gives the sensation that it has been aged longer. and to some
extent deceives the proof,,, old days was called beading oil not really sweet it is a alcohol-sugar.

they are a mix of plain sugar, glycerin and glucose in varying amounts If I recall correctly. You can buy both glucose and glycerin, so why pay for them to mix it for you?

What kiwi and dnder sad. If I may, I used plain old sugar for the sweetness and glucose for the viscosity in my last batch of kaluha. Mind you, I have 50 pounds of glucose kicking around

How much does glucose cost? Surely it won't add that much extra thickness compared to ordinary white table sugar?

blind drunk wrote:What kiwi and dnder sad. If I may, I used plain old sugar for the sweetness and glucose for the viscosity in my last batch of kaluha. Mind you, I have 50 pounds of glucose kicking around

Ive tried the glycerin and found I preferred to use honey instead.

glucose (my stuff is a syrup) makes a huge difference to thickness. you can stand up a knife in it, if you can manage to stick a knife into it....

I just stated what I thought it was , as I use nothing, just time in a barrel.

How much does glucose cost? Surely it won't add that much extra thickness compared to ordinary white table sugar?

The thing with glucose is that it isn't very sweet compared to plain old sugar so you can use more of it to get the mouth feel you're shooting for. If you use sugar only to get the mouth feel you want then the end product might be too sweet. good luck, bd.

I just stated what I thought it was , as I use nothing, just time in a barrel.

Best thickener of all

How does that Jim Croce song go ... "if I could spend time in a barrel ... . "