table sugar for priming?

[Homercidal]

I know you can do it, but what is the difference between table sugar and corn sugar in regards to priming? I was going to bottle some beer last night before I realized I didn't have any corn sugar. I've never used anything else for priming.

 

[Suddy]

I used table sugar for priming with my last batch....I couldn't tell a difference.

I used 3/4 a cup of table sugar for a 5 gallon batch

 

[Killer_Robot]

Only difference is that you use just a little less cane sugar by weight than you would corn. A priming calculator, like this or this should give you results for priming with corn sugar, cane sugar, or DME, matched to your particular beer style.

It's really best to go by weight when possible in any case, since with powdered/granulated substances volume isn't a precise amount.

 

[beerkrump]

There is a slight difference between table sugar and corn sugar. It's the difference between glucose and sucrose, a monosaccharide and a disaccharide. The difference isn't great. Here's a calculator.

 

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

Nothing wrong with using table sugar for priming. The amounts used for carbonation are too low to have any significant off flavors.

 

[Homercidal]

Ok, I wondered if it would affect flavor at all and how it compared to carbonation time vs. CS and DME. I understand that DME can take a bit longer to carb.

I may even force carb this on my spare keg, but I feel like it's cheating somehow. I'm not going to keep it in the keg, but probably just BMBF this half-batch.

 

[fratermus]

My understanding, based on my reading and my experience converting to sucrose priming exclusively:

* flavor is unaffected
* carbing may take longer due to the yeast needing to use (sucrase?) to break down sucrose into more directly consumable sugar before they eat it.
* the need to use less sucrose may have more to do with sucrose absorbing less water by weight than dextrose. So any given weight of sucrose will have more sugar and less water than dextrose and you use less.
* sucrose is highly available and cheeeep. Yay!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I ran out of corn sugar three batches ago! I used DME for carbonation for two of them. I found I didn't much like what that did. The third I used table sugar. I think I actually prefer the table sugar over the corn sugar, and it is definitely preferable to the DME IMO. The table sugar seems somehow a little more crisp. I'll be using it from now on.

 

[Homercidal]

I used table sugar. I got a bad feeling, but it was a half-batch, which I'm new too, and worry about converting amounts properly. I'm the type who will obsess over this and STILL forget to adjust something!

Oh well, it's only the beer I was going to submit for competition...