Raw Sugar v's White Sugar

[Austin Nichols]

Hi all,

Is there any difference in the amount of raw sugar should use compared to white sugar, I'm trying raw sugar in a BW ferment and just used the same amount of raw sugar.

The smell coming from the airlock is awesome.

Cheers, AL.

[rad14701]

Regardless of the sugar, the specific gravity of the wash is what you should go by... But, pound for pound, raw and white should produce pretty much the same end result as far as %ABV... The speed of the ferment may differ ever so slightly...

[kiwistiller]

I think you'll like it I get better results from raw sugar.

[Austin Nichols]

Thanks Rad,

The SG was at 1.07 so I'm pretty happy with that.

Kiwi,

I'm getting a good bit of action with this ferment, it's bubbling like mad and smells sooo nice.... I might even try inverting the sugar for my next BW I put in to ferment, do you think it would make much difference to the fermenting time frame?

Cheers, AL.

[kiwistiller]

I can never really be arsed inverting the sugar, so I'm the wrong guy to ask traditional wisdom would say that you'd probably speed it up a bit and produce marginally less cogeners. Maybe someone else will confirm that for you.

[rad14701]

Inverting your sugar can, depending on what the sugar was made from, reduce fermentation time by a small amount... The trade off is time and effort to invert the sugar versus the marginally additional time required to ferment... For example, with my All Bran recipe, you'd have to ask yourself whether it's worth reducing fermentation time for 4 days to 3 days... That's just an example, not proven time results... All inverting does is to separate the fructose and glucose within sucrose so the yeast don't have to perform in a divide and conquer fashion... The yeast simply get to skip the divide part of the battle...

[Tater]

To my tastes inverting sugar make it harder to taste in fruit washes.

[LWTCS]

To my tastes inverting sugar make it harder to taste in fruit washes.

Meaning that you get a better fruit flavor by inverting Tater?

[Tater]

Meaning its harder to taste the sugar in a fruit sugar mix wash /run

[LWTCS]

Well since you put it that way.............