fermentation

  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. Why you should ferment your Mr. Beer refills for no longer than 14 days

    Why you should ferment your Mr. Beer refills for no longer than 14 days

    This is a common point of differentiation between brewers. Some people are avid 3-week brewers while others are on the shorter side of brewing in the 10-14 day range. For all of our Mr. Beer Refills, we recommend a brewing time of 10-14 days and we do that for good reason.

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  3. The Different Stages of Fermentation

    The Different Stages of Fermentation

    If you are a first-time brewer you are most likely unsure what to expect for your first batch. We thought it would be helpful to break down the different basic stages of fermentation in this week's episode of BrewTalk with Mr. Beer. 

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