Sugar or malt for priming and quantities..

[Aitch]

Hi another daft question. I'm told my beer will taste better using spray malt instead of sugar to prime my keg, do I use the same quantity of malt? Also does this go in dry or do I make a syrup? My first lot (Wherry) is halfway through and if I need to get some malt then obviously need to plan that. Thanks in advance.

H

 

[pittsy]

well people will say both sides of the story , i will say it doesn't make tooo much difference , however i will say if your priming in bottles use sugar if your priming using plastic kegs then i have found it is better to use dme ,seems to produce c02 better for some reason and sugar or malt dissolve in water and boil then let cool down then add then add brew trying not to spash beer , no air is wanted at this stage in brew , plastic kegs want around 85g sugar or 95g of dme best bottles in glass and you can increase amounts of sugar to 120g, malt to 150g all are for a 23l batch

 

[Aitch]

well people will say both sides of the story , i will say it doesn't make tooo much difference , however i will say if your priming in bottles use sugar if your priming using plastic kegs then i have found it is better to use dme ,seems to produce c02 better for some reason and sugar or malt dissolve in water and boil then let cool down then add then add brew trying not to spash beer , no air is wanted at this stage in brew , plastic kegs want around 85g sugar or 95g of dme best bottles in glass and you can increase amounts of sugar to 120g, malt to 150g all are for a 23l batch

Thanks Pittsy, so I'll get some DME (spray mallt, dry malt extract?) and boil water, add 95g of malt (5g keg) allow to cool, add to keg then add brew to keg? I'm desperate to get it right because Mrs Aitch won't let me live it down if I don't! Apologies for asking daft questions, I generally only need to ask them once!

 

[jonnymorris]

spray mallt, dry malt extract?

Same thing. The 'spray' bit just refers to the method used to dry the malt.

 

[RobWalker]

+1 for not much difference, use malt if it's to hand but don't go out of your way!

 

[shearclass]

Would personally use sugar, doubt you would be bale to tell the dfference between the two when just used for priming, and sugar is much cheaper.

As for amount, i would use approx 4g, maybe less, per litre for bitters, and anything up to 10g per litre for fizzy brews. seeing as yours as in the keg and won't be able to hold high pressure to make it fizzy (eg lager fizzy), 4g per litre is about all you need to use, which is approx 90g for a 23 litre brew.

 

[Aitch]

Cracking guys, thank you very much. I don't need to go far to get some malt so will try it, thanks again.

H