Corn Sugar alternative ?

[Majed41]

i honestly don't want to use White Sugar . importing Corn Sugar / Dextrose cost ton of money giving that i couldn't find it in my own country . i heard a lot about inverted sugar . is this good alternative from your experience ?

 

[Rish]

What are you wanting to use it for?

 

[mashdar]

For carbonating I use sucrose (cane/beet sugar) all the time with no complaints.

Invert sugar is neat, but it's quite the undertaking compared to measure-and-dump.

 

[odie]

for bottling? a teaspoon of table sugar per bottle is fine and probably won't change anything.

 

[scrap iron]

If you are talking about sugar for carbonation cane sugar is fine, I use it all the time.

 

[hotbeer]

What you are using the sugar for makes a difference. There are sugars that give the yeast something to make alcohol with, and there are sugars that also add flavors because of how they were processed. And there are sugars that some yeast won't ferment.

So what are you wanting you use sugar for?

If for priming your bottles, most any will do that is easily fermentable.

Invert sugar is good for adding flavor to your beer. Color too if you are using the darker inverts. But mainly when added in larger quantity than the small amount you'd use for carbonation. So you see it used during the main boil. Usually near or at the end.

If you use a different sugar for a beer than is called for in the recipe, then you aren't really making the same beer.