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Invert Sugar

What it does :

Invert sugar can be used to increase the alcoholic strength of your beer, or to prime the beer for bottling. You can use it to make Belgian and French Ales, English Ales.

What it is:

This is a sugar of very fine crystals or syrup form often used to make candies. It is produced by 'inverting' or breaking down the sucrose of sugar syrup into glucose and fructose. It is also used to create Treacle.

Vital Statistics


Color (Lovibond):

0.1

Specific Gravity (SG):

1.046


Dosage:

Invert sugar can be up to 5-10 percent of your fermentables.

Preparation:

Add invert sugar directly to the boiling wort, or to the beer just before bottling.

Invert Sugar