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Best Sugar for Bottling

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  • 26-01-2015 11:20am
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    Crusty Blaa
    Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭


    First time brewer.

    My beer has been fermenting for 12 days now and I hope to begin bottling in next 3-4 days but I'm just wondering what is the best sugar to use when bottling? I've read that corn sugar is the recommended but can't seem to buy that anywhere. Not sure if it's important but I'll be adding the sugar to the bottling bucket instead of the individual bottles.


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    BeerNut
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    Corn sugar is sometimes sold as dextrose or glucose in the baking section of the supermarket. But really it doesn't make a whole lot of difference what sort of sugar you use for priming.

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    Carawaystick
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    The best sugar, is the cheapest sugar. Aldi caster sugar is cheaper than their white sugar, ~1.1euro a kilo.

    I always boil the sugar in about its weight of water to sterilise it before adding to the bottling bucket.


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    HMD
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    I have used DME, dextrose and table sugar and have found the table sugar best.


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