Write StringBuilder to Stream

Depending on your use case it may also make sense to just start with a StringWriter:

StringBuilder sb = null;

// StringWriter - a TextWriter backed by a StringBuilder
using (var writer = new StringWriter())
{
    writer.WriteLine("Blah");
    . . .
    sb = writer.GetStringBuilder(); // Get the backing StringBuilder out
}

// Do whatever you want with the StringBuilder

Don't use a StringBuilder, if you're writing to a stream, do just that with a StreamWriter:

using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(memoryStream ))
{
    // Various for loops etc as necessary that will ultimately do this:
    writer.Write(...);
}

That is the best method. Other wise loss the StringBuilder and use something like following:

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(ms, Encoding.Unicode))
    {
        sw.WriteLine("dirty world.");
    }
    //do somthing with ms
}

Perhaps it will be usefull.

var sb= new StringBuilder("All your money");
sb.Append(" are belong to us, dude.");
var myString = sb.ToString();
var myByteArray = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myString);
var ms = new MemoryStream(myByteArray);
// Do what you need with MemoryStream