Making candi sugar with date and beet sugars?

[tabni]

I have made candi sugar with regular table (cane) sugar before, using a guide that I found here. My question is, would I be able to use the same process but using Date and Beet Sugars? I just want the candi sugar to taste as close to the real thing, and the sugar in Belgium comes from Beet, and not cane.

Thanks

 

[vegas20s]

fyi cane and beet sugar are chemically identical.

Don't know about the date sugar.
Does the date sugar have a special flavor of it's own? If it does you might just want to use it as is. It could add something interesting to your brew.

 

[rshortt]

Hi, I'm wondering if you've tried this. I have some dates drying right now for this purpose.

Thanks.

 

[VApatriot]

A point of fact - all beet sugar in the U.S. is made from GMO sugar beets. If it was me, I'd stick to cane sugar, screw the GMO's.