Can you use cane Sugar to carb with?

[BaronsBrew]

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[Biscuits]

Short answer, yes...you can use pretty much anything containing sugar. Use a priming sugar calculator, like THIS to figure out how much to use.

 

[GrogNerd]

not much more to add, except use the 2nd line (sucrose) in that NB calculator for table sugar

and definitely measure by weight, not by volume

 

[dmtaylor]

I've bottled about 100 batches with sucrose. Works great. I've never weighed the sugar. Just use about 5/8 cup per 5 gallons -- somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 cup. Equates to 2 tablespoons per gallon. It doesn't get much easier than that. And it works very well.

 

[GrogNerd]

I've bottled about 100 batches with sucrose. Works great. I've never weighed the sugar. Just use about 5/8 cup per 5 gallons -- somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 cup. Equates to 2 tablespoons per gallon. It doesn't get much easier than that. And it works very well.

I had issues with flat batches until I switched to weighing my priming sugar.

Great that it works for you.

Which is the great thing about brewing: so many different ways to get to beer

 

[dmtaylor]

the great thing about brewing: so many different ways to get to beer

Cheers to that!!

 

[CUrchin]

I use cane sugar frequently with good results.