Granulated Sugar, Brewing Sugar or Malt Extract?
If you are making a single can kit which contains between 1.5 and 1.8kgs of malt extract, unless you want a really weak, thin bodied beer you will need to add around a further 1kg of additional fermentable material to bring the gravity up to a sensible level. A two can kit doesn’t need any additional sugar, other than at priming stage. For kits that require additional sugar, you can use either standard white granulated sugar, brewing sugar, coloured sugars, honey, golden syrup, treacle, liquid malt extract or dried malt extract (or a combination of any of them) to provide the additional sugar and alter/enhance the colour and flavour of the finished beer. Many brewers happily use standard granulated sugar, which works fine, but may take slightly longer to start fermenting than brewing sugar and will often not ferment down quite as far as Brewing Sugar and may leave a residual sweetness that you were not expecting. Granulated Sugar is usually a mixture of several simple sugars and the ye
