alcotec 23 first try

[Michaeldonk]

Well after a fairly sucessful alcotec 48 I decided to try an alcotec 23 as it worked out cheaper than all the stuff for the 48 brew. Its been bubbling away for 16 hours and all is looking good. Just wondering what difference it will make using glucose instead of dextrose? The 48 kit says to use either where as this says to use brewing sugar? Any help will be graciously recieved.

Btw I have used 8kg glucose in 18L of water instead of 10.5 dextrose. With a sg of 1.off the hydromiter scale. Or at a guess it is 1.178-1.180

 

[MattN]

Is your total volume now 18 litres or more like 23 litres?

Matt

 

[Moley]

Just wondering what difference it will make using glucose instead of dextrose?

None at all, two different names for the same thing.

Dextrose or d-glucose is your brewing sugar, whereas your regular household sugar is sucrose.

And if you add 8kg of sugar to 18 litres of water you should have 22.8 litres of wash at 1.126

If you've got 8kg in a total of 18 litres your OG should be 1.160

 

[Michaeldonk]

Well Moley. I may have messed up cos I used household sugar instead of brewing sugar. I had it in my head that granular was glucose and its currently sat at 23L exactly and has foamed all the way up to the lid

 

[Moley]

From what I understand, if you really are trying to push those yeasties to 23% then they prefer all brewing sugar, but if you've only used 8kg sugar they should be able to cope. From your description, it sounds like they are going to give it a damned good try.

 

[Michaeldonk]

I'm not trying to push it all the way up to 23% I was just disappointed with the 20% one as it only came out at 14% was just hoping for something a little stronger. Maybe 18% ish