priming sugar

[mattybabsy]

had a question about priming sugar- I know how much to use from the instructions. But I don't know how much water to dissolve it in before adding. Also, do I add it to boiling water or do i add it to cold water and bring to boil? does it matter? should I let it cool down before adding t beer?

thanks

 

[The Ginger Ninja]

I just put the sugar in a sterilized mug, add just enough boiling water out of the kettle as i need to get it dissolved, then add it to the beer.

 

[Hollow Legs]

I just put the sugar in a sterilized mug, add just enough boiling water out of the kettle as i need to get it dissolved, then add it to the beer.

Ditto that, except I batch prime.

 

[mattybabsy]

batch priming is where you add it all at once to the fv right? I'm going to do that too- only I'll rack the beer to another empty fv which'll have the sugar in the bottom

 

[Dunfie]

batch priming is where you add it all at once to the fv right? I'm going to do that too- only I'll rack the beer to another empty fv which'll have the sugar in the bottom

Yes, absolutely right. We have a "How To" for that -> Batch Prime your Bottling

 

[markp]

If I need to prime bottles I use 5ml of sugar solution for each bottle.

So, if I'm doing 40 bottles I dissolve the sugar required in to 200ml of water and then dose each bottle with 5ml from a 20ml syringe (4 bottles per syringe).

It's difficult to measure repeatedly the exact same amount of suger over and over again and I got fed up of having different carbonation levels in each bottle.....one or two gushers as well.

Using measured doses with a syringe seems to have sorted all that.

 

[Falconi]

Silly question but priming bottles... i put mine in the bottle granulated is this wrong? and what's the difference?

Thanks

Dunc

 

[The Ginger Ninja]

Nothing wrong with that. However if you batch prime then you get an even amount of fizz with all your bottles. Its a bit of a faff putting half a teaspoon of sugar in each bottle and very hard to get an exact half teaspoon in all the bottles. So batch priming is quicker and you get more even results.

 

[eblis]

I used proper measuring spoons when priming my bottle and I'm sure a few granules of sugar makes no difference to the fizz.

 

[Hollow Legs]

the pro's for batch priming is that you are using a measurment of sugar/dextrose etc for 23ltrs or whatever your brew size is and you don't have to use same size bottles

the con's are that you need another FV to use/sterilise!, I still prefer to batch prime tho'