Invert sugar group buy

Nice one, and once again, thx for sorting this..

BB

Nice one, and once again, thx for sorting this..

BB

No problem bud

Ok, so we have liftoff. Got the sugar last Friday and it's now weighed out in 1250g lots.

It's got a fudge/caramel taste and nothing like syrup or the invert sugar I made, so interesting to see how it affects the finished beer. I'm doing a Landlord clone (hopefully this weekend).

Brilliant,and your description of the taste is promising

Brilliant,and your description of the taste is promising

It's like I'd hoped - I can see the flavour being very complimentary.

Brilliant,and your description of the taste is promising

It's like I'd hoped - I can see the flavour being very complimentary.

Well done, looking forward to reading the results. You say it's like fudge, may I ask what it is like to cut and how you achieved that?

Brilliant,and your description of the taste is promising

It's like I'd hoped - I can see the flavour being very complimentary.

Well done, looking forward to reading the results. You say it's like fudge, may I ask what it is like to cut and how you achieved that?

It was a major pain in the ass to cut with a big kitchen knife. Took me over two hours to cut, weigh out and bag up.

[Dennis King]

I don't have a problem cutting but I'm only cutting a couple of hundred grams at a time for each individual brew.

It was a major pain in the ass to cut with a big kitchen knife. Took me over two hours to cut, weigh out and bag up.

That's what I'd been told by Dennis and was hoping you'd found a new way. Thanks for the confirmation.

To be honest, I'm surprised that breweries don't drive demand for this product so that it's packaged in smaller amounts (like 5kg). I could imagine that it's still going to be a bit of a chore to chop up the sugar in a bigger brewhouse as you're never going to just dump a 25kg block of sugar in the boil kettle

would using a warmed up knife make things a tad easier to cut it?
just a thought

would using a warmed up knife make things a tad easier to cut it?
just a thought

It's not tough to cut, it's just the shear size of a 25kg cube of sugar that makes it difficult.

[Dennis King]

would using a warmed up knife make things a tad easier to cut it?
just a thought

It's not tough to cut, it's just the shear size of a 25kg cube of sugar that makes it difficult.

When I first cut into it I used a chisel to break it up a bit after that it's been OK.

It's not tough to cut, it's just the shear size of a 25kg cube of sugar that makes it difficult.

had totally forgot bout this stuff an all. bonus!
you're a trooper man

I've been packaging this stuff up - just need to get it to a post office, or book a courier.

I can confirm that it's pretty easy to deal with on a brew day. I did a Landlord-inspired pale ale/bitter today and used it at 5.5% of fermentables. It darkened the colour very slightly at 5%. Even at 10% I doubt it would darken the colour very much.

Ragus say that it's around 80-85% fermentable, so I'm approaching this much like using crystal malts.

Hi all,

Ok, finally got this all ready to go. Weighing out, packaging and posting eight lots of this stuff was WAY more time consuming than I'd given it credit for; especially when all of my 'spare time' is spent with my baby boy.

I've got the courier all booked and paid-for, so hopefully you should all have your parcels by Thursday/Friday.

Oh, and you should all get email updates from the courier too so you know when the delivery is due.

Thx pal...


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really appreciate all the time and effort you have put into this.

Thanks for doing this

I got an email from myhermes which I assumed was junk, would that be it?

No problem guys - good karma hopefully

My first brew with this stuff is currently on day 9 in the FV sat on a stone floor in my cellar at around 18C. Mind, the stone floor probably acts like a huge heat-sink.

Planning on taking gravity readings any day now, crash cooling for a few days then bottling.

I got an email from myhermes which I assumed was junk, would that be it?

Yes, it's My Hermes I've used. Just dropped the parcels off at the local drop point.

I got an email from myhermes which I assumed was junk, would that be it?

Same here I had an email from herpes with a link to parcel tracking which doesn't work .
Just taken another look and the tracking is working now .

I got an email from myhermes which I assumed was junk, would that be it?

Yes, it's My Hermes I've used. Just dropped the parcels off at the local drop point.

Excellent! Thanks for doing this, much obliged.