Whoops, icing sugar

[Nicks90]

Was doing an elderberry wine with the midget the other day and whilst I was mashing the juice out of the boiled elderberries and squeezing them through the sieve in to the DJ, I had violet mix up a kg of sugar in some boiled water to hit my target OG.
Today I was doing some baking and reached for the icing sugar and .... Oh. None there. But there is a bag of granulated that I asked girl child to use for my wine.
Put her on the wrack and stretched the truth out of her, she'd used the bloody icing sugar in my wine!

Doesn't seem to have done any harm, it's gone off like a rocket...but is there anything in icing sugar that going to ruin my wine?

 

[GerritT]

Anti-caking agent?

 

[marshbrewer]

Tesco's own brand icing sugar is, according to their website, Icing Sugar (97%), Maize Starch.

Can't see 3% Maize Starch (cornflower) Doing any damage whatsoever. It might take a bit longer to clear.

 

[GerritT]

Maybe the corn starch ferments as well. I wouldn't be bothered.

 

[simon12]

Icing sugar is just finely ground sugar, I remember having to make it by putting sugar in a blender.

 

[Nicks90]

Cheers guys,
Well I'll leave it to do its thing until next month and rack it to a fresh dj and take a sneaky taste and see if it's done anything funky.

 

[yeastinfection]

anyone else would of called it an experiment

 

[hesstondriver]

"its only a mistake if you do it twice" HD