They're different types of sugar, ones a simple and the other is a complex sugar, sucrose. Sucrose will take a lot longer to be metabolised by the microbes than glucose, but I don't know what the conversion would be. My advice would be to just add a lot. Don't know if that helps. As to the bottles, use glass. There's some asthetics to that, but I notice that pop out of a glass bottle tastes a whole lot better than plastic. Typically, they have cases of beer bottles at your local liquor store. They've been used, but so, they can be cleaned. Make sure they're the returnable kind which are a little bit stronger and perfectly suitable. luck, cowboy