I'm an idiot.....help quick please
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impur
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phenry said:
Yes, plain old white table sugar is fine. If you don't have a scale, you can approximate with 2/3 of a cup of white sugar boiled in two cups of water.
Glad you remembered before you got them all bottled!
ChshreCat
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Corn sugar is better, but in a pinch (like you're in) plain old sugar will work just fine.
If you were really stuck, you could even use honey. Pretty much any sugar, in the proper amount. Just don't use spelnda.
If you were really stuck, you could even use honey. Pretty much any sugar, in the proper amount. Just don't use spelnda.
rjschroed
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Corn sugar is better, but in a pinch (like you're in) plain old sugar will work just fine.
If you were really stuck, you could even use honey. Pretty much any sugar, in the proper amount. Just don't use spelnda.
Or lactose. I agree that plain old sugar is probably your best option at this point though. Your not an idiot, honest mistake.
Not lactose. I don't think yeast consumes lactose. Maybe you meant dextrose, which is corn sugar.
Corn sugar is better, but in a pinch (like you're in) plain old sugar will work just fine.
If you were really stuck, you could even use honey. Pretty much any sugar, in the proper amount. Just don't use spelnda.
LOL
Brewing with Spelnda. Dite Beer.
ChshreCat
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I can't find the post, but someone did that! They were asking why their beer didn't carb. When asked, they said they used 3/4 cup of splenda because they "didn't want the calories from all that sugar" in their beer.
ChshreCat
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I think he was adding on to my statment "don't use spelnda" "...or lactose".
You're right. Wups.
rjschroed
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Yeast, at least brewer's yeast, does not consume lactose. I meant it as a joke. the previous poster said "just don't use splenda." which I presumed was sort of a joke. So I added on by saying don't use lactose either. sorry for any confusion
Edit: or yeah, you guys already figured it out. lol
pksmitty
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A little late to the party to help the OP, but you can also boil a little DME and use that for priming.
waddsworth
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Very common mistake. I know that, on more than one occasion, it was by the grace of God that I ended up having enough sugar or bottle caps or sanitizer or some other dumb thing that I forgot to buy or double check before getting started.
