Home brew again

[rusty_bawz]

after the recent home brew thread, Me and the missus decided to give it a try and bought a wine kit and a been kit.

now I thought we only needed the beer makers sugar for the been but it turns out we need it for the wine too.

now can I use granulated sugar (household stuff) or do I need to go buy beersugar??

if i have to use beer makers are there any high street shops that sell it or will I have to buy online??


cheers

crumley
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[ThoughtContro...]

Just use ordinary white sugar, that's all you need.

There may be recipes that state use brown sugar for whatever flavour it imparts but 99.9% of home brewing is with white sugar.

Have fun mate!

[LeeR]

As a preference I always found Tate & Lyle (cane sugar) of a slightly higher quality for making alcohol, than Silver Spoon (beet sugar), though they are both refined by British Sugar.

If making beer I would definitely use cane as I seem to remember that a beer yeast can't metabolise beet sugar as well as cane. Cane sugar also tastes better, but I've only been able to buy it in Sainsbury's and Waitrose of late as everyone else (Asda, Tesco, Wilko etc...) only seem to sell beet sugar.
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