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cane sugar,dextrose,table sugar,corn syrup?????

I'm getting frustrated with what type of sugar to use for bottling.  I have a recipe that says to use regular sugar, but it made my last batch taste like apple cider. I have heard corn syrup is good to use, but they only have vanilla flavored corn syrup at the store here.  So I wen to the home brew shop and  bought a ton of dextrose, because I heard this was the best thing to use.  Problem is I can't find the ratio for how much dextrose to use.  Can anyone help?

 

Dextrose is corn sugar.....here is a carbonation calculator for figuring the amount of what to use for what you are using......wink
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipa … ation.html

 

Thanks a lot, that is a really cool website.

 

Not to be a jerk, but it's very possible it was just your beer that tasted like apple cider and not because of the sugar you used to carbonate.  The amount of sugar used to carbonate is usually such a small percentage of the total recipe, that it will have zero effect on the flavor.

I've used regular table sugar in pretty high amounts and never gotten a cidery taste.

DT

 

I have put in a pound and a half of table sugar to beer before and never gotton cidery flavors.
Cider flavors happen when you have poor yeast health.
Start with your yeast before you suspect its the sugar.

 

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