Batch priming with Golden Syrup

[Halfacrem]

Hi all,

I am bottling a St Peter's Golden Ale tomorrow. Keeping with the Colour theme, I would like to batch prime with Golden Syrup, if that's possible?

Assuming Golden Syrup is appropriate, I'd appreciate some help on how much to use. It's a 20 litre brew, which I will syphon into a spare fv for bottling. I'd have gone for 100grams of table sugar. Will the same weight of Golden Syrup be OK. Also, will I have to dilute the syrup a bit to ensure it mixes, or will putting it straight into the fv and syphoning over it be fine.

Cheers

Martin

 

[Good Ed]

Golden Syrup is inverted sugar, and for priming your beer it will have very little if any taste difference to cane sugar

 

[wilsoa1111]

you can if u want but its a bit pointless also its a pain to claculate as its no 100% sugar it has about 30% water so need to do some calc to work it out, if u want to use something special to prime use a (nice) honey dark sugar or even malt extract (will again need about 40% more -check this-as only part fermentable)- i tried this once and honestly dont bother

 

[DirtyCaner]

Yeah go for it, maybe a little more, 120g perhaps, dissolve it in a small pan of boiling water and simmer gently for 10 mins befor adding to the bottling bucket.

 

[Halfacrem]

Thanks all,

If it's not going to add anything noticable, I'll go with some nice Muscavado Sugar I've found in the cupboard!

Thanks