Anyone ever carbonated by using raw sugar cane?

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britishbloke

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I ran out of dextrose and only have some pure cane sugar which tastes great.

Im wondering if this could be safe to use as a carbonation.

Im bottling a wine that I want slightly carbonated.

Right now I plan on using a quarter cup of raw cane sugar, will that be OK?:confused:
 
this is a wine. Made with Welches grape juice.....

caramel flavors? Its not brown sugar though, but OK.

I do have some porter DME laying around but thought it might add a bad flavor too the wine.:p
 
Use the sugar. By the way, sugar cane and cane sugar aren't the same thing. Sugar cane is very high in fiber. :D
 
I don't know if it would help, Good Eats did a show on beer making and he used regular sugar to prime with. He had to do something to the sugar first (something about regular sugar having 2 molecules and priming sugar having one) but whatever he did was really easy. I know you are doing wine but it maybe same principle. Take it for what its worth.
ps- i did a batch of wine from welches once and actually still have a bunch left over. My biggest issue with that batch oddly enough was , i could not make the carbonation go away.
best of luck!
cheers
 
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