What do you all use for potential extract from Corn Sugar when formulating your recipes? I've always used Promash and never questioned it. Promash uses 1.046. During Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day a buddy said it's 1.037 (a number from Noonan, iirc). I was brewing a dubbel, which had a significant amount of corn sugar. We pulled out several books and did some web searching and didn't find anything close to a consensus. Next day, I dissolved 1 oz corn sugar in 1 cup water (to simulate 1 lb in 1 gallon) and measured it (w/ refractometer and converted to s.g.) at 1.038. Due to the small amounts, this little experiment is greatly affected by small measurement errors, so I'm not highly confident in the results.
Thoughts?