MoreBeer doesnt sell sinimar, but I prefer to use grains.
Midnight Wheat and Carafa Special are supposed to be the least roasty.
Sinamar is grains...or was before they were mashed and fermented.
Denny, not fermented.
http://www.weyermann.de/eng/produkte.asp?idkat=26&umenue=yes&idmenue=&sprache=2
It is a color addition. On the tour I was on in Nov. they said Weyermann bought the company that made the extract in the 30s IIRC. The original wa sin Berlin.
Interesting. I read a FAQ there yesterday that said they were. Wonder if I can find it again?
i would be interested in that link. On the tour they said it started out as a food color additive.
Well found one from old Horst. How fermentable is an all Carafa wort? 0 DP, so what would convert?
http://byo.com/hops/item/1374-sinamar
http://www.weyermannmalt.com/cz/faq.asp?umenue=yes&idmenue=250&sprache=13What is Sinamar®?
Answer Sinamar®, a registered trademark of the Bamberg specialty malts manufacture with the connected roasted malt beer brewery Heinz Weyermann®, was already developed by the company founder Johann Baptist Weyermann in the early 20th century.
It is a pure natural product, which is manufactured entirely from dehusked, roasted malt. There is an almost tasteless, de-bittered, highly liquid, deep black essence, which is used by breweries in more than 135 countries to lend their beers colors or to correct them without compromising their delicate taste of beer. Sinamar® derives its brand name from the Latin "sine amaro", which literally means "without bitterness". From its small beginnings in the early 20th century mainly as colorant for Bavarian ales and pastries, Sinamar® has developed into a universally used roasted malt extract over the decades.
Today it not only gives thousands of beer brands worldwide color on completely natural way and without unpleasant flavor impact but also helps products in the food and non-alcoholic beverages industry as well as juices and distillates to receive their attractive coloration. Sinamar® is now used by companies on all continents. The Sinamar® customers are responsible for ensuring that Sinamar®, although occasionally imitated, today is the international market leader in roast malt extracts.
Sinamar® is an exceptional malt in some respects. It is about 40 times as dark as the darkest beer. Compared to "normal" malt extracts Sinamar® has no fermentable sugar content, because it is
not derived from spice, but from already fermented beer; therefore, it is concentrated, however, non-alcoholic beer, whose sugar content is used up and whose alcohol is removed. The purpose of Sinamar® is not the simplified production of wort or beer by commercial sites, which for example, do not have their own brewing house, but the de-bittered color correction of beverages and foods.
The biggest advantage in addition to the ease of use - the use is possible in almost all stages of production - is the "clean labeling" -decoration - so no E-number – of the natural product already in conventional quality. Moreover Sinamar® from Weyermann® is also available in organic quality.