Ingredients

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Originally Posted by Carnut1100

The home brew kits tell you to add sugar but I never do when I use them.
They make a decent starting point but I use malt extract and extra hops and it comes out alright.

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When they say sugar, they mean brewers sugar(ie) dextrose, Malt, Barley and so on, not caster or white sugar.

Caster sugar should only be used for carbonating bottled beers.

Baz

Pretty sure one of the kits had White Sugar listed to add...either way I use malt extract...

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Originally Posted by Carnut1100

Pretty sure one of the kits had White Sugar listed to add...

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+1


Just getting into it myself. Used dark brown sugar in a Coopers stout, and held back on the water a bit to make a total of 20l.
Also tried light brown sugar in the Real ale kit, easy on the water.

Both came out quite nice.

Just bottled a Canadian blonde, and another Real ale, this time using the enhancer packs.

Never drunk so much beer in my life.......:o

I never use caster sugar was always told to use dextrose. I also use those malt enhancer packs and it makes a big difference, and buy proper yeast throw out the crap that comes with the extract tins.

Over time you will have a nice collection of different beers, well actually I thought I would have an ample supply of beer but I kept drinking them and never let them age properly, only when I got the keg system was I able to store beer away and let it age in the bottles. If you haven't got one get yourself a keg system they are fantastic.