I have a newbie question...Coming from a beer brewing background I have
always used corn sugar (or honey,etc) but not table sugar. I've now
succesfully made wine kits (which required no added sugar) and am looking to
make some different fruit wines in my 1 gallon demijohns. Is table sugar
from the supermarket what all the recipes that just say "sugar" are calling
for. Should I be looking for anything special when I buy it or does store
brand plain sugar behave exactly the same way. Its a very basic question I
know but sometimes my brew mind brings them up.

Cheers,
Jason

On 1/23/04 8:30 AM, in article , "Jason
Thomas" > wrote:

> I have a newbie question...Coming from a beer brewing background I have
> always used corn sugar (or honey,etc) but not table sugar. I've now
> succesfully made wine kits (which required no added sugar) and am looking to
> make some different fruit wines in my 1 gallon demijohns. Is table sugar
> from the supermarket what all the recipes that just say "sugar" are calling
> for. Should I be looking for anything special when I buy it or does store
> brand plain sugar behave exactly the same way. Its a very basic question I
> know but sometimes my brew mind brings them up.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
>

Table sugar it is! It should work just fine. You can also use honey as the
fermentable to make meads and melomels.

--
Greg Cook
http://homepage.mac.com/gregcook/Wine

(remove spamblocker from my email)

Jason,
Common table sugar is what usually is added to wines unless
stylistically you are looking to alter the flavor. HTH
John Dixon
"Jason Thomas" > wrote in message
...
> I have a newbie question...Coming from a beer brewing background I have
> always used corn sugar (or honey,etc) but not table sugar. I've now
> succesfully made wine kits (which required no added sugar) and am looking
to
> make some different fruit wines in my 1 gallon demijohns. Is table sugar
> from the supermarket what all the recipes that just say "sugar" are
calling
> for. Should I be looking for anything special when I buy it or does store
> brand plain sugar behave exactly the same way. Its a very basic question
I
> know but sometimes my brew mind brings them up.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
>