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An important building block of carbohydrates typically making up 8 to 10 percent of wort sugars. Pure, commercial glucose, sometimes called dextrose, always contains a certain amount of dextrins which, being unfermentable, remain in the beer and give it a sweet, mellow flavor. Syn dextrose; corn sugar.
An important building block of carbohydrates typically making up 8 to 10 percent of wort sugars. Pure, commercial glucose, sometimes called dextrose, always contains a certain amount of dextrins which, being unfermentable, remain in the beer and give it a sweet, mellow flavor. Syn dextrose; corn sugar.
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Latest revision as of 18:29, 20 January 2007

An important building block of carbohydrates typically making up 8 to 10 percent of wort sugars. Pure, commercial glucose, sometimes called dextrose, always contains a certain amount of dextrins which, being unfermentable, remain in the beer and give it a sweet, mellow flavor. Syn dextrose; corn sugar.