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  1. Enhancing Your Belgian Beers: Making Candi Sugar at Home

    Enhancing Your Belgian Beers: Making Candi Sugar at Home

    What Exactly Is Candi Sugar, And How Does It Benefit My Beer?

    The process of making candi sugar involves inverting, then caramelizing sugar syrups at high temperatures, which results in a range of colors and flavors. This caramelization process can produce a variety of sugars with different characteristics, allowing brewer to tailor the sugar to their specific beer recipes.


    Simply put, inverting sugar is the process of breaking down complex sugars, such as sucrose,

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  2. Alternative Yeast Options for Mr. Beer Refills

    Alternative Yeast Options for Mr. Beer Refills

    If you are looking for an easy way to jazz up your Mr. Beer refill, we have an easy solution for you!

    Just change out the yeast!

    Yeast imparts a lot of the flavor that you get in your beer so doing a simple change of yeast can create a dramatically different beer.

    Below we break out all the best options for what yeast to add to each refill. Each yeast will add bring about its own characteristic and flavor to your beer.

    Cheers!

    Classic American Light

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