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A must have for any brewer. Dextrose (also known as corn sugar, or priming sugar) is an extremely common ingredient in the brewing process. When used as a beer adjunct (ingredient) Dextrose with raise the alcohol content of a beer and reduce the body, which is excellent for high gravity beers like double Ipa, barley wine, or many Belgian beers. This can also be used during bottling to give a fermented beer just enough sugar to bottle condition (carbonate). corn sugar is also widely used by hobby distillers to create a fermented sugar wash which can be distilled into whiskey or moonshine.