mineral water and sugar?

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mineral water and sugar?

Post by shaffick » Thu May 28, 2009 10:14 pm

is it okay to use mineral water when making home brew?. also what is the exact difference between brewing sugar and normal sugar?
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Re: mineral water and sugar?

Post by OldSpeckledBadger » Thu May 28, 2009 10:23 pm

shaffick wrote:is it okay to use mineral water when making home brew?
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That depends on the mineral water. TBH tap water is just as good (and probably has less nasties in it).
shaffick wrote: also what is the exact difference between brewing sugar and normal sugar?
Brewers Sugar is Glucose, which is immediately fermentable. Household sugar is Sucrose. The yeast needs to break this down (each molecule of Sucrose is split into one molecule of Glucose and one molecule of Fructose IRC) before it can ferment it.
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