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priming sugar

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:41 pm
by Jayzen008
I just wanted to know if brown sugar can be used in place if corn sugar for priming ? I am still bottling all of my beer. I am still new to all of this. I am looking to start kegging but in the mean time...

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:51 pm
by Mike Grover
Jayzen -

Brown sugar will work fine. It has a small amount of molasses in it, and might contribute flavor accordingly. However, the priming amount is pretty small and shouldn't make a notciceable difference except perhaps with a very light bodied beer. I suspect that you might want to use just a tiny bit more brown sugar than the amount of corn sugar you normally would've used.

Cheers!