Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks 1 lb. Are especially grown and dried for Beer Flavoring.
Don’t Just go to your local grocery and get cooking grade cinnamon. Our cinnamon sticks are highly potent! Great for holiday beers and any other beer you want to give that cinnamon touch. Add 2-4 cinnamon sticks during secondary fermentation for approximately one week. For darker beers add one whole stick. If a stronger flavor is desired, you can add additional sticks or crush them. Cinnamon is a bark and should not be added to the boil to avoid imparting tannins.
OTHER USES
Cinnamon is widely used in baking, cooking and as an additive to warm and cold beverages. Cinnamon sticks can also be used as an aromatic by adding water and placing it on your stove-top.
OTHER PRODUCTS YOU MIGHT NEED
Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks can be used for fermentation with any beer yeast.
If you are using Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks you probably are fermenting some beer. Here's a link to our fermenter equipment.
Many people reuse their hoses for far too long. Replacing your hoses often or even using as single use items is highly recommended with beer making. Especially if you are using Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks you want to avoid residual flavors.
Auto-siphons are a great luxury item to have in your brew equipment. Once you have one you will never go without one again. Don't forget to use a heavy duty sanitizer to clean it since you don't want to replace it often as hoses. A good sanitizer for that job is Five Star San.
Pouring your wort into a carboy can be tricky. Use a big funnel made just for the job. They even have different mesh screens to remove particles.
Airlocks are another inexpensive product that should be periodically replaced. Though it might be easy to assume bacteria is not a concern with airlocks because they do not actually touch your beer, this is not the case. A small increase in temperature could cause your beer to swell and back up into the airlock. It happens often. You don't want to risk losing your batch over a potentially unsanitary and cheap piece of plastic.
Making a yeast starter is a great way to avoid stuck fermentation and also get high yeast counts that allow the final cells to clean up after themselves, reducing off flavors and aromas. Starting with high populations makes better beer. Use the right equipment to make the job easy. Flask, Foam Stopper, and Airlock.
DID YOU KNOW?
Cinnamon use dates back to 2000BC in Ancient Egypt. In addition to culinary uses it was believed to be effective in the treatment of muscle aches and soreness.
Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks 1 lb. Are especially grown and dried for Beer Flavoring.
Don’t Just go to your local grocery and get cooking grade cinnamon. Our cinnamon sticks are highly potent! Great for holiday beers and any other beer you want to give that cinnamon touch. Add 2-4 cinnamon sticks during secondary fermentation for approximately one week. For darker beers add one whole stick. If a stronger flavor is desired, you can add additional sticks or crush them. Cinnamon is a bark and should not be added to the boil to avoid imparting tannins.
OTHER USES
Cinnamon is widely used in baking, cooking and as an additive to warm and cold beverages. Cinnamon sticks can also be used as an aromatic by adding water and placing it on your stove-top.
OTHER PRODUCTS YOU MIGHT NEED
Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks can be used for fermentation with any beer yeast.
If you are using Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks you probably are fermenting some beer. Here's a link to our fermenter equipment.
Many people reuse their hoses for far too long. Replacing your hoses often or even using as single use items is highly recommended with beer making. Especially if you are using Brewer's Best Cinnamon Sticks you want to avoid residual flavors.
Auto-siphons are a great luxury item to have in your brew equipment. Once you have one you will never go without one again. Don't forget to use a heavy duty sanitizer to clean it since you don't want to replace it often as hoses. A good sanitizer for that job is Five Star San.
Pouring your wort into a carboy can be tricky. Use a big funnel made just for the job. They even have different mesh screens to remove particles.
Airlocks are another inexpensive product that should be periodically replaced. Though it might be easy to assume bacteria is not a concern with airlocks because they do not actually touch your beer, this is not the case. A small increase in temperature could cause your beer to swell and back up into the airlock. It happens often. You don't want to risk losing your batch over a potentially unsanitary and cheap piece of plastic.
Making a yeast starter is a great way to avoid stuck fermentation and also get high yeast counts that allow the final cells to clean up after themselves, reducing off flavors and aromas. Starting with high populations makes better beer. Use the right equipment to make the job easy. Flask, Foam Stopper, and Airlock.
DID YOU KNOW?
Cinnamon use dates back to 2000BC in Ancient Egypt. In addition to culinary uses it was believed to be effective in the treatment of muscle aches and soreness.
Hoses
Siphons
Funnels
Airlocks
Yeast Starters