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My mates and i are in a beer syndicate and we are new to this, one of the guys was told to add a kg of raw sugar to the batch. What will this do to the taste and to the alcohol content? Any help would be appreciated.

It will raise the alcohol content but wont make it taste that flash, your better off adding malt which you can get in dried or liquid form from all home brew shops.

Thanks for the quick response. He has actually added it to the last couple of batches and the taste isn't the best, but we weren't sure if this was the reason.

Does anyone know what the alcohol content would be with this extra kg of raw sugar?

From memory i think its about 5.2% for a standard kit and kilo of sugar which will be a little less if you use all malt but will taste a heap better

To calc your alcohol percentage, use this: http://www.brewcraft.com.au/wawcs019616 ... lator.html

Lots of simple sugars are a bad idea in beer. They produce cidery flavours. Anything more than 20% of the fermentables is too much. Go the malt and some finishing hops in the boil and you'll never look back. Next will be specialty malts (like crystal) and before you know it you'll like your homebrew more than the commercial stuff... then you'll do a partial mash and it'll be unbelievable. Then you do an All Grain batch and your world will be turned upside down...

BTW, did you see this thread?

Simple things that make HB better

i tried extra sugar no good,put 500g of malt +1 kg dex,was good