Festival Golden Stag Summer Ale - Priming Sugar

[Wul100]

Hi there. Home brew novice here - be gentle.

Have brewed my first batch of Golden Stag. The kit came with priming sugar but I also have bottle drops. Going to bottle it so which will produce the best result? Transfer to another vessel and use the priming sugar from the kit before bottling?

Or bottle straight from the fermentation vessel and use the drops?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Bigd2657]

Hi there. Home brew novice here - be gentle.

Have brewed my first batch of Golden Stag. The kit came with priming sugar but I also have bottle drops. Going to bottle it so which will produce the best result? Transfer to another vessel and use the priming sugar from the kit before bottling?

Or bottle straight from the fermentation vessel and use the drops?

Thanks for any advice.

I would rack to another vessel first let this sit there for 24 hours and then add the priming sugar and then bottle.

I tend to use tate and lyle sugar cubes and just put one of those in a bottle job done.

Big d 2657

 

[Wul100]

Hi there. Thanks for that. So here's the slight rub! I brewed my primary fermentation in the vessel with the bottling tap. So am I ok to rack it to my basic vessel, clean out the primary, sterilise etc then re-rack back into that, leave to settle for 24 hours, add the sugar abd then bottle? I know i'll need to minimise the air in the brew during siphoning as much as possible.

Or am simply giving myself too much work and better just to bottle from the primary with the drops in?

 

[Zephyr259]

I've done 3 batches where I've primed in my primary because it had a tap and was my only bucket. Boiled the sugar with a cup of water then cooled and slowly trickled into the fermenter while stirring gently and never going past 2/3 - 3/4 depth so not to rouse the yeast. The I leave it to settle while i sanitise my bottles.

A few lumps in the first bottle or two of brown ale, the stout was perfect the braggot looked like pond water but it was a Belgian yeast, dropped crystal clear after a week in the bottle.

Good luck.