7lbs=16 cups?

[T_Baggins]

NOT IN MY KITCHEN!!! So about this skeeter pee recipe, i just began cooking down the sugar and the recipe calls for 7lbs or 16 cups of sugar, well I measure out 16 cups of sugar and it took the both entire 4 lb bags! what's going on here? ....

 

[kh54s10]

Volume is an unreliable way to measure a powder or grains accurately. With sugar, a really fine sugar of a particular weight would have a volume much smaller than a coarser sugar.
Get a scale and go by weight. If you have a recipe that asks for volume, find a better recipe.

 

[T_Baggins]

damn, so my piss is 1 lb overweight? how do you think it will effect it?

 

[Wineomatic]

Granulated sugar: 2 cups in a pound
Brown sugar: 2 1/2 cups in a pound
Confectioner's (powdered) sugar: 3 1/2 cups in a pound
(Source: http://recipecircus.com/recipes/Joy/EquivalentsinMeasure/Equivalents_in_Measuring.html)

How will it effect your Pee?
If there is sugar the yeast will eat it until it reaches its alcohol tolerence and the alcohol kills the yeast. Remaining sugars would just be backsweetened.
(General Yeast Alcohol Tolerence Chart: http://winemakermag.com/component/com_yeasts/Itemid,165/view,chart/)

 

[T_Baggins]

As it turns out, the 8 lbs wasn't even enough to reach the recommended OG of 1.070 ... and I've decided to bump it up to 6 gals instead of 5, so I will adding more sugar anyway. No worries.