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[Skillron]

Hello,

This is my very first time on here and I just started brewing. I am currently working on an exract wheat ale. It is fermenting now and was wondering what priming sugars to use? I was thinking of just white table sugar, boiled with water. Any suggestions?

 

[vmibrewer]

Don't do it man! Go online or go to your lhbs and buy some corn sugar!

 

[deepcdan99]

+1 for corn sugar.

 

[Jdk261]

Table sugar will work. You can also tell time by using a sun dial, but why do it if you don't have to.

Go get some corn sugar; but if you don't, nothing bad will happen and table sugar can/will work.

 

[deepcdan99]

Table sugar will work. You can also tell time by using a sun dial, but why do it if you don't have to.

Go get some corn sugar; but if you don't, nothing bad will happen and table sugar can/will work.

One thing with table sugar, it is more granular than corn sugar, so 1 cup of table sugar wouldnt neccessarily be 1 cup of corn sugar if u go by volume.

 

[Jdk261]

Yah, that is true. Just trying to keep the RDWHAHB mantra alive...it'll work if it has to, just might not be ideal.

 

[thasnazzle]

What's the difference between using corn and table sugar?

 

[Jdk261]

What's the difference between using corn and table sugar?

Not much. Mostly moisture content. Corn sugar, coincidentally, has a higher moisture content than cane sugar. the difference isn't big enough to get caught up in as far as I'm concerned.

Typically, the knock on sugars with a higher moisture content is that the % of moisture in the sugar won't do anything to carbonate your beer. To put it plainly, corn sugar has somewhere between 5-10% water by weight (John palmer's book how to brew can provide accurate numbers) so that 5-10% won't help your beer carb. To make up for it, you would just use more.

 

[bleme]

Table sugar has been known to impart an apple flavor, and not a good apple flavor. The following site gives you lots of options, including table sugar if you want.

Http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator

 

[cincydave]

Skillron....Hello and welcome to HBT. If you search "corn sugar vs table sugar" you will find numerous threads on the subject. Found one post where the brewer split a batch, primed half with corn sugar, half with table sugar and could tell no difference. For just priming, I think you'd be just fine with either one. If you have corn sugar use it, if not, I wouldn't hesitate to use table sugar.