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Icing sugar is just finely ground normal sugar. I've used white sugar for bottling many times. - Just make sure you work on weight not volume or you'll end up with bottle bombs.
Icing sugar is just finely ground normal sugar. I've used white sugar for bottling many times. - Just make sure you work on weight not volume or you'll end up with bottle bombs.
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I currently use DME for bottling as I think it produces a finer head. But I exclusively used brown sugar as I dont buy white. I considered it less refined until I realized that it's also white sugar but then some molasses is added back to ensure perfect consistency in color. But that's not what you asked.
Brown works great. I didn't pick up any taste issues
Brown's taste is "deeper" for me, so to speak. I rarely use white sugar, but it'll work for carbonation. Icing sugar as well. Icing sugar is just superfine white sugar, as I have it. It'll work just fine.
Guess I'm special then, did a brown and white sugar side by side, the white was drier the brown a bit more caramelly. This was on a Pilsner so no dark grains to hide behind.
I can taste the difference between white, brown and several different artificial sweeteners in my 500ml mug of coffee every morning, and it's not just the sweetness that differs. I agree with greenghostbreath, must be special then. A side-by-side sounds like a great plan. I don't have icing sugar at home, but I'll bottle three small bottles of my upcoming stout with dextrose, brown sugar and white sugar, and then do a comparison.
I'm with harham on this one guys. My taste buds are numbed from years of coffee I think. Maybe it was the sambuca in varsity I dont know but I have trouble distinguishing minute differences. I will be bottling my red on Monday so I'll do a side by side of. Brown. Caster. Icing and DME. But I'll probably see more of a difference then taste.
Dont waist your time with this in your beer rather split a batch to test something significant like using 2 different types of yeast where you will actually learn something.
If you dont believe me just disolve 7g brown sugar and 7g white sugar in 1 liter water each, do a blind taste test, let somebody serve it to you in a coffee mug without knowing the type of sugar, don't look at the color. Taste the difference and ask yourself if you would taste that difference in your beer.
Now take the sugar water samples and carbonate it and taste it again, tell me then if you will still taste the difference in a beer
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