AKbrewer
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Is there any reason why you can't use sugar instead of dme?
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Not that I can think of. I use dme myself just because I happen to have it in but I have also used white sugar to good effect. Just a teaspoon in a jar of cooled boiled water.
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You need maltose not simple sugar. Yeast grown on simple sugar stops making the enzyme that enables them to break down maltose. Since wort is mainly maltose, fermenting it with yeast grown on simple sugars results in a beer that will not attenuate properly - White/Zainasheff
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+1jonnymorris said:
You should definitely not use sugar.
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Thanks everybody. This makes sense. This is by far the best site on the net it's all good information. :Dr Mike said:
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