Corn Sugar
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Corn sugar and corn starch are two different items. I have heard that some folks have found corn sugar in health food stores.
Why do you need it? If you need it for bottling, you can use any type of sugar. If you need it to add to a beer, there are other possibilities too.
Why do you need it? If you need it for bottling, you can use any type of sugar. If you need it to add to a beer, there are other possibilities too.
RogerMcAllen
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Corn sugar is also known as dextrose or glucose, you might try looking under those names.
Dextrose is not the same as glucose if I remember correctly.
ifishsum
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You're right, corn sugar is dextrose and not the same thing as sucrose.
For priming purposes, regular table sugar will work just as well as corn sugar, so don't waste too much time if you can't find corn sugar. Just use 15-20% less (by weight).
Killer_Robot
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Dextrose and glucose are the same thing. Glucose is the official name of the chemical, and dextrose one that used to be used in the medical field but still is used in the food industry. Sucrose is different, being a slightly more complex sugar. Table sugar is sucrose, which is a different sugar, and as stated you can use it where you would use glucose, just a bit less.
Corn starch is what corn sugar is made from, but the process involves using enzymes to break it down into sugar. Since your beer/apfelwein/whatever lacks those enzymes, it's useless. (You could technically add corn starch to the mash in an all-grain beer recipe, but I have no idea why you would want to.)
metaltim
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why not just order corn sugar online? That's what I did, got like a 5lb. bag for under $10.
