Beer kit sugars

Jul 30, 2004 3 Replies
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Hi,



I have been making beer kits for a while, one thing I have noticed is that every make has a different way to do things. Most of it is all the same thing although some kits say to use dextrose and not glucose for carbonation sugar. will that make a difference with any kits?



I also have one kit that says to squeeze the air out of the PET bottles when screwing the caps to avoid aving any air inside the bottle, I figure the co2 will fill it back up? is that a good practice I have never done that to my bottles and never had a problem...



Thanks



Daniel


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Your choice of bottling sugar will not make much of a difference on the flavor, as the flavor is pretty well set by time you bottle. Just be careful when measuring different types of priming sugar. The different types of priming sugars (corn sugar, malt extract, honey, etc.) will have different effects on the levels of carbonation

The little bit of oxygen in the head space of the bottle will not harm your beer. The yeast goes through a new life cycle when bottling, so the little O2 in the air space will likely be used by the yeast. Just do whatever works for you.

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Dextrose IS glucose

Dextrose (glucose), 30 g

Item: CH-DEXTROS Price: $2.25

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RE:squeeezing bottles: My HBSH said PET was for making Soda, and wouldn't sell it to me for bier

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