my point exactly, though i must admid than when I've used more than 50% table sugar I've gotten other "off-flavors" than green apple(diacetyl/2,3-butadione)
Belgian brewers very rarely use table sugar.  They do, however, use candy sugar from time to time.  Kwak is one of the beers its used in.  I have personally failed to detect any hint of green apples in a belian beer so far though.

/Angus
--- Pug Bainter <20000406130816.3DBC380BD@sitemail.everyone.net> wrote:
>Angus (angus@iamawitch.com) said something that sounded like:
>> >Many home brewers have claimed for years that a high sugar wort will
>> >produce a cidery beer.  Is this perhaps your source?
>> Odd, I've never heard of this or encountered it myself.
>
>The only time I've encountered is by the use of standard table sugar.
>This is something I'll use with my ciders to enhance the flavor/smell.
>
>Ciao,
>
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