Sugar Substitute

[Nobby Novice]

Hi, my homebrew shop has run out of brewing sugar. I have used demerera to prime my bottles for ales, but what can I use to prime my pilsener without changing the taste ? I have seen somewhere that granulated sugar is not really recommended.

[OldSpeckledBadger]

I have seen somewhere that granulated sugar is not really recommended.

Not recommended by who?

[Garth]

Badger is right, dumping a bag of Tate and Lyle in your beer will have detrimental effects on your beer

but priming with it is fine, it's such a small amount, brewing sugar just dissolves a bit quicker

[Nobby Novice]

Thanks for the advice. I must have read somewhere that it is not recommended for brewing, so thought better of using granulated for priming. I can now get my pilsner bottled.

[steve_flack]

Granulated is fine for priming and also for using in reasonable amounts in the actual recipe. If you want half your fermentables to come from sugar then it will probably taste crap (although using almost any sort of sugar for that amount is not going to give great results IMO - 'brewing' sugar or not).