Priming sugar for Pumpkin Ale

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I'm about to bottle my pumpkin ale, and I've always used dextrose in the past but was wondering if I should try brown sugar this time. Are there any benefits as far as taste or anything else goes and I've always used 1 cup of dextrose so should I use the same amount of brown sugar or more/less? Thanks for the help
 
I think brown sugar is perfect for a pumpkin ale, and the darker the better. The darker the sugar means the more residual carmally/mollasses flavor will remain after the yeast eats the fermentables.
 
That sounds like it would be really good. The only thing I would look for a chart online for carbonation. Also molasses sounds good in theory. But you might be onto something.
 
Mollases is touchy to prime with. I used date palm mollasses to prime my sri lankin stout and I regret it. It's just too intense and kind of takes away from it.
 

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