Brown Sugar / white sugar

[Lauritsen]

Using some Brown Sugar instead of 100% white sugar in apple wine, will it change the taste much or just slightly?

Any experience with it? What about the color?

 

[bransona]

The only difference is that brown sugar is white sugar + molasses. It won't be as strongly flavored as pure molasses (maybe 2/5-3/5 the flavor), but from my research, molasses apparently presents itself pretty strongly. If you want to know what flavors brown sugar will produce, search around hbt for molasses instead

 

[Yooper]

I hate the taste of fermented brown sugar, but others like it. It makes a big change in the flavor, sort of like molasses but without sweetness.

 

[Skuee]

I'm using dark brown sugar in my apple wine this year. Smells pretty good right now. Fermenting like a champ with Lavlin D-47 yeast.