Estimating Ebc Of Home Made Candi

[drtomc]

Hi All,

I'm lining up a dubbel, so last night I cooked up some sugar into a nice deep caramel. In order to balance the amount of coloured malt, I'd like to estimate its colour in EBC. Any hints on how to do this?

T.

 

[razz]

Perhaps measure it against a color scale like beer judges use T. I found this page that has color for candi sugar, I was surpirised at how dark they can be.http://www.beerbelly.com.au/candisyrupspecs.html

 

[MHB]

I think it's the colour of a 10% W/V solution, put about 1 cm in a glass and check it against a standard colour scale, should get you fairly close.

Good Link.

MHB