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Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: sparky on July 31, 2007, 21:46

Title: Lactose
Post by: sparky on July 31, 2007, 21:46

For sweetening wine.
Anyone know where I can get it from, Chemists, Health food shops, Home brew stores???
Thanks in anticipation 8)

Title: Lactose
Post by: richyrich7 on July 31, 2007, 21:48

All three of them should sell it sparky best bet would be the home brew store but might not be the cheapest.

Title: Lactose
Post by: WG. on July 31, 2007, 22:00

In case anyone out there was wondering ... lactose (rather than sugar) can be safely used to sweeten wine since it does not lead to secondary fermentation / burst bottles.  This is because yeast cannot break it down.

Same with beer, some folks still call sweet stout, milk stout for this reason.