corn sugar vs table sugar

[simster571]

ok so soon ill be bottling my mr beer recipe i made...but i have heard form alot of you guys that corn sugar is better than table sugar when you do the bottling so i think id rather use that. but my question is....do i still use the same amount...i think the instructions call for 2 1/2 teaspoons per bottle with the table sugar. will it also be 2 1/2 teaspoons for the corn sugar?

 

[shafferpilot]

That sounds like a lot, I could be wrong since I've never used table sugar or primed bottles directly. I use this page to figure out priming sugar amounts. It figures for the entire batch, but if you boil a little water and dissolve the sugar then mix it into the bottling bucket really well, no problems

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html

 

[shafferpilot]

Yeah, according to www.onlineconversion.com 2 1/2 tsps per bottle comes out to about 2 1/2 cups total for a 5 gallon batch. That's WAY TOO MUCH corn sugar. You'll have glass grenades for sure with that much. It should be about 3/4 cup more or less depending on style. BTW it's much better to measure sugar by weight since the granule size and how much the sugar is packed into a measuring spoon/cup makes for very unpredictable results.

 

[joebou4860]

If I remember when I bottled using the sugar directly it was a heaping 1/2 tsp of corn sugar into each bottle.

 

[Kayos]

If you are using 22's then that amount is right. Sounds like Mr. Beer instructions. They are online under the mr. beer website. Use the same amount of corn sugar as table sugar.

 

[PseudoChef]

If you are using 22's then that amount is right. Sounds like Mr. Beer instructions. They are online under the mr. beer website. Use the same amount of corn sugar as table sugar.

No, you don't use the same amount of table sugar as corn sugar. (3/4 cup corn sugar or 4 oz by weight, which you should be doing anyway, vs 2/3 cup table sugar for 5 gallons of beer to get a standard/generic volume of CO2)

 

[simster571]

haha, so im still kindof confused. How many teaspoons should i use per 1 liter bottle? maybe ill jsut use the table sugar, i dont want to mess anything up.

 

[shafferpilot]

OH!!, 1 litre bottles, well that changes everything. According to my calculations, 2.85 teaspoons of corn sugar per litre of beer, which converts to 2.71 teaspoons of table sugar. The reason for the difference is that corn sugar is only 95% fermentable and grane sugar is 100% fermentable. Either way your directions appear to be correct now that we know it's for 1 litre bottles:rockin: Funny how a three day conversation can end up leading all the way back to the beggining like that