Barley sweets a replacment for Carb drops in priming ?

[barkar]

hi has anyone tried barley drops/ boiled sweets as a replacement for cabonation drops , i am sure they are pretty much the same thing . Here is the ingredients list :


Ingredients:
Glucose Syrup (59%), Sugar, Natural Flavourings: Oil of Lemon, Colouring: Sunset Yellow.

 

[graysalchemy]

Why not just use sugar?

I find 6-7g per little dissolved into a little hot water then put it in the bottom of a clean sterilized spare FV, siphon your beer onto it carefully and stir with a spoon then bottle.

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[barkar]

I dunnno i am only bottlin about 6 bottles of a 23litre batch the rest is goin to be force carbed in a corney. I bought a pack of glucose as well how much woudl one need for a grosch bottle?

 

[graysalchemy]

What size grolsch bottle?

 

[barkar]

440ml :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

440/1000 x 7g = 3.08g per bottle

 

[barkar]

primed a few bottles about 7 days ago , opened 2 and still fairly flat does glucoes take longer to prime generally ?

 

[graysalchemy]

You need to leave for 7 days at the same temp as you fermented at ie 18-21c then leave for at least another week at room temp. The longer you leave it the better IMHO.