Yeast Strains & Sugar

[Tedpro]

Do different yeast strains eat different sugars?
If not where can I find a list of fermentable sugars/non-fermentable.

Thanks,
Ted

 

[david_42]

Brewing and wine yeasts can handle the same simple sugars (glucose, fructose, dextrose) and saccharides (sucrose, maltose). Attenuation is your best indication of the ability to handle long-chain sugars. Non-fermentable sugars (lactose) are non-fermentable.

 

[Freezeblade]

Brewing and wine yeasts can handle the same simple sugars (glucose, fructose, dextrose) and saccharides (sucrose, maltose). Attenuation is your best indication of the ability to handle long-chain sugars. Non-fermentable sugars (lactose) are non-fermentable.

Beer/wine yeasts actually can't ferment sucrose without first breaking them apart into fructose and glucose mono-saccharides, which they do fine, but that's just being picky