Priming with Light Muscovado Sugar

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DavidF

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I have a bag of Tesco light muscovado sugar in the cupbaord and I was wondering if I could prime my oatmeal milk stout with it?
Would it work and would it give any extra flavour or benefit over using standard white table sugar? I usually use ~2g table sugar per 33cl bottle (half a level tablespoon, I think?).
 
You can certainly use it to prime and it will ferment out completely. Not sure if the rates in terms of CO2 volumes produced would be the exact same as table sugar but if there is a difference I'd imagine it would be negligible.

In terms of flavour, it may impart an ever so slight caramel/toffee flavour in lighter styles but I'd be surprised if it could be noticed against the backdrop of an oatmeal stout.
 
Thanks Jon. I think I'll do a couple of bottles with Muscavado this time and see how it goes.
 

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