peebee
Out of Control
This is a follow-on from Brewer's Invert Sugar (Part II)
The scenario is you have a beer recipe.
It's asking for "Invert Sugar", "No.1", "No.2", "No.3", even "No.4" if really unlucky!
You look about and no-one seems to sell it (you can buy it, but it costs loads and you may have to get 25Kg of the sticky stuff). All the suggestions are to make it yourself. There are published instructions on the Internet, but all seem to involve boiling sugar syrups for ages and ages to get the right colour. And boiling sugar syrup is flippin' hot!
Most give up at this point, and hardly surprisingly. But what if you were to learn there is actually no need to boil sugar solution for hours on end, or at all for that matter! In fact, no-one in the breweries ever did that! That you could make an imitation much (much!) closer to the original from stuff you can buy from the Supermarket! It will use a method not dis-similar to that used by Ragus ... the last UK sugar refiners to still make Brewer's Invert Sugar. And yes, even Ragus make an "imitation" because the original raw materials don't exist anymore.
So put away the saucepans for boiling sugar syrup and follow these simple instructions (for which you need only your kitchen scales!).
(This is an >off-site link< for now ... to "Jim's Beer Kit" forum. The responses will dictate how I present the instructions on this forum. Possibly another "treatise" in my signature space below?).
The scenario is you have a beer recipe.
It's asking for "Invert Sugar", "No.1", "No.2", "No.3", even "No.4" if really unlucky!
You look about and no-one seems to sell it (you can buy it, but it costs loads and you may have to get 25Kg of the sticky stuff). All the suggestions are to make it yourself. There are published instructions on the Internet, but all seem to involve boiling sugar syrups for ages and ages to get the right colour. And boiling sugar syrup is flippin' hot!
Most give up at this point, and hardly surprisingly. But what if you were to learn there is actually no need to boil sugar solution for hours on end, or at all for that matter! In fact, no-one in the breweries ever did that! That you could make an imitation much (much!) closer to the original from stuff you can buy from the Supermarket! It will use a method not dis-similar to that used by Ragus ... the last UK sugar refiners to still make Brewer's Invert Sugar. And yes, even Ragus make an "imitation" because the original raw materials don't exist anymore.
So put away the saucepans for boiling sugar syrup and follow these simple instructions (for which you need only your kitchen scales!).
(This is an >off-site link< for now ... to "Jim's Beer Kit" forum. The responses will dictate how I present the instructions on this forum. Possibly another "treatise" in my signature space below?).