Milliana Brown Sugar
Bulk Brown Sugar
What happens when you add molasses to sugar? You get the richer, more dense, familiar form of brown sugar. Simply put, the addition of a small amount of molasses is what makes Milliana brown sugar unique. While still fine-grained, brown sugar gets its namesake from its color, but it is more well-known for its bolder taste. As a valuable alternative to white granulated sugar, any bakery, confectionery, or coffee shop should always have a reliable amount of bulk brown sugar on hand at all times if they want variability in their offerings.
Available Sizes: 25 and 50 lb bags
Product Specifications
Read our product specification for light brown sugar.
Read our product specification for medium brown sugar.
Read our product specification for dark brown sugar.
Types of Milliana Brown Sugar
At Indiana Sugars, we provide the highest quality light, medium, and dark brown bulk sugar. The grade of brown sugar darkens relative to the amount of molasses present in the sugar.
Light Brown Sugar
Light brown sugar is usually created with about 3.5% molasses. Recipes calling for brown sugar include cookies, cake, bread, butterscotch pudding, and caramel corn, these applications often require golden, or light brown sugar. Its a light colored soft brown sugar with a mild cane molasses flavor. Indiana Light Brown Sugar provides color, mild molasses flavors and increased moisture retention and shelf life for many food product applications.
Medium Brown Sugar
Medium brown sugar sits between light and dark in % of molasses. Its a medium colored soft brown sugar with a mild cane molasses flavor. Milliana Medium Brown Sugar provides color, pleasing delicate caramel flavors and increased moisture retention and shelf life for many food product applications.
Dark Brown Sugar
Dark brown sugar is usually created with twice as much molasses as light, or about 6.5%. Due to the amount of molasses in dark brown sugar, recipes requiring a deep, complex flavor – typically complimenting cinnamon, ginger, or cloves – often call for dark sugar. Among the most common recipes with dark brown sugar are gingerbread or chocolate cake. Its a dark colored soft brown sugar with a distinct cane molasses flavor. Indiana Dark Brown Sugar provides color, molasses flavors and increased moisture retention and shelf life for many food product applications.
What About Demerara, Turbinado, and Muscovado Sugar?
Demerara sugar and Turbinado sugar are often referred to as “raw sugar,” are typically utilized for sweetening beverages, such as coffee or tea. Demerara is known for mild molasses flavoring, while turbinado possesses a hint of honey. Muscovado sugar is sticky and thick with an overpowering molasses taste. It does not get spun in a centrifuge, resulting in extremely strong flavors.
Other Types of Brown Sugar
- Golden C® (Light) Brown Sugar (C&H Sugar Co.)
- Yellow D® (Dark) Brown Sugar (C&H Sugar Co.)
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Is All Brown Sugar Interchangeable?
While nothing is stopping you from substituting white granulated sugar with brown sugar, you should keep in mind the molasses in brown sugar will add a more robust taste to your recipes. This level of change in flavor will also depend on what type of brown sugar you use. While you can technically substitute any of these sugars with a simple 1:1 ratio, you should note the differences between the types.
Brown sugar comes in three different varieties, light, medium, and dark. Each level contains more molasses than the last. For instance, using dark brown sugar will have twice as much molasses as light brown sugar and will provide a deeper, more complex flavor to your treats.
Applications for Bulk Brown Sugar
There are several common applications of bulk sugar within a manufacturing settings. Some include:
Baked Goods & Pastries
Brown sugar is an incredibly common ingredient in baking. For those who want to soften up the taste of molasses in their cookies, many recipes will call for brown sugar for a more delicate take on the molasses flavor. Brown sugar is also well known for being combined with cinnamon to make some delicious cinnamon rolls and other crumbles.
Coffee shops and coffee drink manufacturers find brown sugar can complement well with the robust taste of coffee. Many liquid sugar syrups will also use brown sugar for its ability to mix well with other spices.
You will find brown sugar as a main ingredient in popular treats such as toffees and caramels. Brown sugar's color and natural caramel-like taste lend itself to blend naturally into these kinds of sweets.
Since brown sugar is slightly acidic, it can be handy for soft drink manufacturers to capture that extra bite found in various sodas. Some might find the color and texture to be preferable over white sugar to blend in seamlessly with their caramel-colored drinks.
Current trends and research into the healthier benefits of brown sugar make it a more popular choice than ever to use in creating chocolates. Confectioneries can experiment with brown sugar for more aromatic chocolates and treats.
Beverage & Distilling
Sugar is necessary in the distilling process, but it's not necessarily important which kind of sugar you use. Breweries will use the darker color sugar to make darker beers like porters and stouts. Some distillers experiment with different types of sugar to create all kinds of spirits, but the most common one would be the sugarcane molasses-friendly spirit of Rum.
Why Buy Brown Sugar in Bulk With Indiana Sugars?
For nearly a century, we have partnered with manufacturers in the food industry, delivering trustworthy, dependable service to longstanding customers. Our goal is to craft every product with the highest standards in our industry. Along the way, we seek to build long-lasting relationships with valuable customers.
Timely Shipments
Our shipments are timely and reliable. We understand that downtime is not an option for food industry leaders. We consistently meet and exceed expectations, addressing every customer’s ordinary and extraordinary needs with phenomenal customer service.
Tested Quality
Before a customer receives a shipment, it must pass our laboratory testing for premium quality. Product freshness is equally important to our team as it is to our customers. Therefore, we strive to provide the highest distribution and manufacturing standards, committed to excellence.
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