DIY Candi Sugar

I have plans to brew (or rather, to get Bron to brew) a Belgian Dark Strong Ale this week. Chimay Blue is one of her all-time favourites so I'm hoping this one turns out ok.

With some help from instructions on another blog, we made some dark candi sugar to give the beer colour, some flavour, and a boost in alcohol and dryness.

We used:

1 cup of table sugar
1/4 cup of water
1/2 tsp DAP yeast nutrient
1/4 tsp cooking lime

First attempt

Just heat it up, add a dash of cold water if it's boiling too much and colouring too quickly and let it get to the flavour/colour you're after. We found that it turned pretty quickly from amber to black so watch out for that.


It took a few goes to get right but we eventually got it right.