elkdog

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Maltodextrin is about 12% fermentable (according to Austin Homebrew and somewhere else that I'm too lazy to look up and cite right now), so you may see just a little action when you add it, but the other 88% goes to adding body to your brew.

As mentioned above, lactose is typically used to sweeten beer, and will work fine unless you're lactose intolerant.

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Revolving Door Brewery

Austinhomebrew

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If you add any powder or liquid to a batch of beer it will raise the gravity. If it is fermentable that extra gravity will dissapear. If it is not fermentable the gravity will stay there at the end.

Forrest