Alcohol contribution from maltodextrine?

[jtejedor]

So I added a pound of maltodextrine to my wild beer a few months back. Taking a gravity reading the beer is at 0.998! So it seems that everything in the beer has been fermented out. So is the maltodextrine converted to alcohol by the brett? Does anyone know what it would contribute? Would it be like adding a pound of DME?

 

[Bensiff]

I'm not the SME on such things, but bugs can chomp through some things that sacc can't so I'm they did some work on it. What the outcome is I don't know though, it can be carbon dioxide, alcohol, acid, etc.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Some ferments as alcohol but you are also getting other fermentation by-products, such as esters and acids.

 

[boostsr20]

I'd be curious to know if there have been any studies on this topic to show what your likely to get from it.