Any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose, sucrose, and in beer production maltose.
Questions tagged [sugar]
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What will happen if the main fermentable in a beer was mostly table sugar?
I wanted to brew a pale ale. Long story short crushing grains for all-grain brewing has a dramatic impact on efficiency. I went to a new homebrew store and didn't bother to check whether the grain was crushed effectively. Turns out it wasn't and…
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Adding sugar late - a problem?
using a home brew kit I followed all the initial instructions implicitly, got to the final stage of adding the dried yeast and stirred it in. 4 hours later I realised I had failed to add the sugar which I then did.
Question1: Was I too late and…
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What does Brewing Sugars add to your beer?
I was enticed to buy one kg of brewing sugars for my home brew. It was said that it would dry out the taste of the beer. I would like to know what effect adding one kg of dextrose would bring to 20 liters of wort?
I would like a higher gravity and…
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Sickly sweet ginger beer, Acesulfame K?
I've been brewing a kit Ginger Beer the last 10 days and it's about finished I think. Starting SG was 1.041 and it's settled at 1.008. 100g of grated boiled Ginger were added, and 1kg of Muntons Beer Enhancer (spray dried dextrose and spray dried…
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Lowering sugar content and using whey for ginger beer
I am planning to make ginger beer using whey and keep the sugar to a minimum. Are you able to advise the level of Rapadura sugar (coconut) to use so that it will be all eaten in the brewing. The aim is for a sugar free, alcohol free probiotic drink…
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Can I replace D-180 Candi Syrup with Treacle?
I don't have quite enough Belgian Dark Candi Sugar Syrup for a recipe, can I replace a quantity of it with Treacle?
I have both golden syrup and black treacle available.
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