Sugar for bottling

one4stevo · Post by **one4stevo** » Saturday Sep 23, 2006 10:32 am

Being my second beer Bach I was wondering what kind of sugar you use to place in the beer bottles. The first Bach I made I used the sugar that came in my kit which is a morgans kit. I was taking to a mate of mine and he said normal sugar will be fine. even for fermenting. although I used dextrose for fermenting. but I forgot to get the sugar for bottling when I got the dextrose. Can normal sugar be used or is it out the question...?

Beau · Post by **Beau** » Saturday Sep 23, 2006 10:41 am

Hey Stevo.
Normal white sugar will be fine. I always used white sugar but lately I've been priming with dextrose as I got a couple of kilograms free from Coopers

. The effective difference between the two for priming is virtually indistinguishable, though as the months go by bottles primed with dextrose tend to result in slightly finer bubbles, but it will taste exactly the same which ever you use.
As for using normal cane sugar for fermenting, I would definately advise against it. Cane sugar can often leave residual "cidery" flavours in your beer, but dextrose will ferment right out and leave a clean taste as it's a simple sugar (single molecule).
When priming with white sugar you don't use enough to notice any change in taste.
Hope this answers your question.

Beau.

one4stevo · Post by **one4stevo** » Saturday Sep 23, 2006 11:48 am

Thankyou Beau

save me another trip to the shop, ill just use the normal sugar. You still use the same amount about 2 teaspoons for 750 ml.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Saturday Sep 23, 2006 12:01 pm

one4stevo wrote:Thankyou Beau save me another trip to the shop, ill just use the normal sugar. You still use the same amount about 2 teaspoons for 750 ml.

Yep

one4stevo · Post by **one4stevo** » Saturday Sep 23, 2006 12:09 pm

Cheers

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Monday Sep 25, 2006 11:55 am

Sucrose (white sugar) is 10% stronger than dextrose by weight.

nanna Gail · Post by **nanna Gail** » Monday Sep 25, 2006 3:17 pm

Hi guys, being a brewer of the female kind could I question how much sugar to be added to a long neck as I have only ever added 1 teaspoon As a side note is it only the VB long necks that are now 800ml or all long necks???

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Monday Sep 25, 2006 3:34 pm

It's the Carlton Draught and VB bottles at least. I'm not sure about the other CUB beers. Coopers is definitely still 750mL.

As for the amount of sugar to add, that's up to you. Most people use 8g of dextrose, which would be around 7g of sucrose per litre of beer.

See the Essential Guide to Bulk Priming for a guide to different carbonation levels.

But if using a teaspoon per bottle works for you, why change?

gavind · Post by **gavind** » Wednesday Sep 27, 2006 1:18 pm

i'm fairy certian all CUB longnecks are 800ml. i've got shirtloads of Resch's Pilsner ones and a few Fosters one's also.