Flaked Corn & Corn Sugar

[klaus]

I am planning to brew an American Pale Ale and the recipe lists:
1.4 lbs. (0.64 kg) flaked corn
1.6 lbs. (0.73 kg) corn sugar (10 min.)

Presumably flaked corn is cornflakes as we know them, but corn sugar I am not so sure. Could I just use normal household sugar?

 

[Covrich]

corn Sugar is dextrose / brewing sugar

 

[Spoon]

I've never brewed with flaked corn (which yea, is corn flakes, but kellogs etc pump them full of additives which you don't really want), but my understanding was it's pretty much the same as corn sugar, a tasteless, colorless, highly fermentable source of sugar. Useful if you want a dry, hoppy IPA (or a cheap to produce, flavorless lager, budweiser use Rice to the same effect).

You can also use Corn grist, but it requires cooking, flaked corn is essentially corn grist cooked and dried.

 

[klaus]

Torrefied maize is the product to use, rather than the packet cornflakes. It's amazing how many additives they put in, even in the organic and "free from" ranges.