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Priming Sugar.
Hello. Any one up yet. Im new to the site , and got a serious question about priming . You see this is my very first 5-gallon batch. ????? So heres the story. I brewed up my kit of Continental Pilsner , fermentation stage went fine (5-days).--- On to the secondary to clear it out ( 14 days ). Still goin OK. -- Racked my beer into my buckett , (Still good ) -- Ok , now its prime time , When I added my sugar , I added it dry to my beer ,stired in cerefully , then bottled ,and capped. -- It foamed up a little bit when I added the priming sugar , So I,m wondering if this normal , and if I,m still good . Has anyone done this before . Thanks to all . Dano.
No but you will most likely be ok. You may see some inconsistancy in the bottles as I think mixing the sugar in a little boiled water or some of your wort helps to evenly disperse it in the bucket.
Thank,s Bull , And good morning. I got 8 six-packs on the hook, just hoping everything,s OK.
You should also open one each week, so you can see how it develops. It may not be ready after one week, but it will furthur your ability to judge when a brew is done carbing....
Thank,s So you think it,s gonna carbonate ok ?
you will most likely get some uneven carbonation amounts, because you introduced your priming sugar in dry form rather than in solution.
it will be fine, don't worry. next time, dissolve the priming sugar in half a pint of water and than pour that into the bottling bucket and rack your beer on top of it.
No worries. Just dissolve that sugar next time in some water and add it to the brew.
The bubbling was CO2 escaping from the beer when you added the sugar. Sort of like adding a sugar packet to a glass of coke. There is s small amount of carbonation in the brew after fermentation is done. SO you were just seeing it try to escape.
I usually bring one pint of water to a boil then stir in the priming sugar and let boil a few minutes before adding to my beer in the bottling bucket. I used to be concerned about getting it cooled down but It's so little liquid to so much that you can add it right off the stove with no ill effect to the beer. This is the Brewers Best Cont. Pilsner kit , correct? If so you'll want to set some of this aside for 6-8 months. This was the second beer I ever made and I drank the last 3 I had while brewing in Dec. with a buddy and I really regretted not having saved more as that it was so GOOD!
If you want to go "dry" with your priming you can add 1/2 teaspoon of brown sugar to each pint bottle and then rack beer into it. I do this for my experimental batches and it works great.
A couple batches ago I had a total brain fart when bottling and dumped in my priming sugar into my bottling bucket right after weighing it out. I only have about 6 bottles left and every one so far has carbbed up fine.
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