Adding extra sugar

[laxation]

I bought a ginger beer homebrew kit (Beermakers) and it says to add 1kg of sugar to make 3% Alcoholic ginger beer...

Will putting an extra kg of sugar in give other effects aside from making it extra alcoholic?

I dont want it to explode (obviously) or taste bad (...obviously...) but would really like it to be stronger, since I enjoy getting plastered

[corks]

yeah, 2 kilos would bump it up into the realms of 6% i reckon. won't change the taste too much, normal sugar pretty much ferments completely. in beer it leaves a slight cidery taste but the ginger should more or less overpower that. try dextrose if you don't want to risk it. BIG W, Kmart and some supermarkets have kilo bags of dextrose.

[Trizza]

Dextrose and Honey make good adjuncts with GB, and as long as you've got over 2 Kilos altogether, it'll be strong enough.

Go here for a good approximation of the alcohol content:

http://www.brewcraft.com.au/wa.asp?idWe ... etails=172

Note ~ Honey falls under the Dextrose/Glucose area, as its nearly completely fermentable.

Trizza.

[drsmurto]

Actually honey is only 50% fermentable from what i understand. If you bulk prime with honey you need to add twice as much. At least thats what my bulk priming calculator tells me.......

[Boonie]

I did 2kgs of Raw Sugar....too sweet for me

I am going to do 1kg Soft Brown sugar next time

[rwh]

Actually honey is only 50% fermentable from what i understand.

Honey is about 82% sugar, so I'd use 1.2 times as much as sucrose or 1.1 times as much as dextrose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey#Composition_of_honey

[drsmurto]

Read it wrong
http://oz.craftbrewer.org/Library/Metho ... uide.shtml

Add 50% extra so its assumed as 75% fermentable which isnt a long way off the 82%.....