Baz Chaz
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There seems to have been a few questions recently about priming brews, batch priming or bottle priming, well I'm a batch primer personally, so I thought I'd do a bit of an experiment ....... no not another along the line of my 'bottle bomb' experiment, more of a how little could you prime per bottle :idea:
I don't like fizzy beer, which is my personal preference, so I'm happy to be priming on the low side, like I said, I batch prime so while bottling this morning I made 20 ltrs available for experimentation purposes, 20 ltrs make for easy maths :geek:
Normally batch at 80g for 23 ltr (but have been down to 60g) and I only use plain old granulated sugar, nothing fancy, so a rough average of 3.5g per litre. 3.5g x 23ltr = 80.5g would be my norm.
A heaped teaspoon (I mean heaped, as much as you can get on one) I weighed out at 8g, a level teaspoon (scraped flat with a knife)weighed out at 3g, so my normal batch primed bottles would have the equivalent of half a level teaspoon if bottle primed, thats not a big amount when you see it after you've weighed it.
Today I did 40 bottles in 4 batches of 10 at 1g per ltr 2g per ltr 3g per ltr & 4g per ltr
First 5 litres (10 bottles) had 5g sugar in 100 ml solution in then bottled ...
2nd 5 ltr had 10g - 3rd had 15g and 4th 20g.
I don't think you could do the smaller amounts of sugar other than by batch priming !
Now then, I know there are so many variables between brews, but by doing it this way, hopefull should be able to get a reasonable comparison between each batch of 10, they're all now in a warm spot for a week before going to storage.
The brew was Jennings Cumberland Ale recipe from the GW book ABV 4.1% ...... so now the wait begins.
I'll leave 'em a few weeks then will start having a test, just realised, will have to drink one of each batch to make sure its a fair test :whistle: I reckon if more people got involved in experimentation like this science etc would become much more supported / interesting :
For anyone interested in priming at much higher rates see ....
Bottle Bombs
I don't like fizzy beer, which is my personal preference, so I'm happy to be priming on the low side, like I said, I batch prime so while bottling this morning I made 20 ltrs available for experimentation purposes, 20 ltrs make for easy maths :geek:
Normally batch at 80g for 23 ltr (but have been down to 60g) and I only use plain old granulated sugar, nothing fancy, so a rough average of 3.5g per litre. 3.5g x 23ltr = 80.5g would be my norm.
A heaped teaspoon (I mean heaped, as much as you can get on one) I weighed out at 8g, a level teaspoon (scraped flat with a knife)weighed out at 3g, so my normal batch primed bottles would have the equivalent of half a level teaspoon if bottle primed, thats not a big amount when you see it after you've weighed it.
Today I did 40 bottles in 4 batches of 10 at 1g per ltr 2g per ltr 3g per ltr & 4g per ltr
First 5 litres (10 bottles) had 5g sugar in 100 ml solution in then bottled ...
2nd 5 ltr had 10g - 3rd had 15g and 4th 20g.
I don't think you could do the smaller amounts of sugar other than by batch priming !
Now then, I know there are so many variables between brews, but by doing it this way, hopefull should be able to get a reasonable comparison between each batch of 10, they're all now in a warm spot for a week before going to storage.
The brew was Jennings Cumberland Ale recipe from the GW book ABV 4.1% ...... so now the wait begins.
I'll leave 'em a few weeks then will start having a test, just realised, will have to drink one of each batch to make sure its a fair test :whistle: I reckon if more people got involved in experimentation like this science etc would become much more supported / interesting :
For anyone interested in priming at much higher rates see ....
Bottle Bombs
