Using DME for priming

[Pearlfisher]

My next brew is going to be a Brewmaker 1.8kg Irish Velvet Stout kit with a 1.5kg can of Cooper's dark ME added . I've 500g of LME left over from an extract brew I did , would it be ok to use some of it to prime when I keg it , if so ,how much?

 

[calumscott]

Absolutely fine to use any kind of fermentible sugar for priming.

Spraymalt (DME) at 1:1 for sugar.
LME at 1.5:1 for sugar. So if you would normally go 4g/l then you need 6g/l of liquid malt extract.

 

[Pearlfisher]

Thanks CS.

 

[graysalchemy]

It actually won't make a blind bit of difference to the taste. However if you wanted you could used demerara sugar instead of white sugar. :thumb:

 

[calumscott]

True - to get flavour notes from the prime you need something with a bit of guts.

Treacle, caramelised candi, strongly flavoured honey, muscovado maybe, maple syrup possibly? Hmmmm...

 

[alanywiseman.]

I would save the DME for brewing and prime with sugar. I have done both and there is no noticable difference

 

[phettebs]

I once had a crusty old LHBS keeper tell me that DME produced better CO2 than sugar for bottling. Then again, he also told me there was no such thing as crystal 120 and that a bag labeled American 2row was actually Maris Otter. Come to think of it, he was drunk a lot of the time.

I've used DME, corn sugar, white cane sugar, demerara, and turbinado to bottle. They are all fine.

Baz

 

[PD]

he heeee...... don't you love the old Arkwrights !

I don't understand anyone using other than household sugar for priming bottles....its free..... pinch it off your wife partner, mother.
at a rate of half a teaspoon to a bottle it ain't going to alter the taste at all.

 

[ScottM]

Absolutely fine to use any kind of fermentible sugar for priming.

Spraymalt (DME) at 1:1 for sugar.
LME at 1.5:1 for sugar. So if you would normally go 4g/l then you need 6g/l of liquid malt extract.

Surely DME won't be 1:1? It's only 80% fermentable, as opposed to 99% with sugar. To me that would say that you need to use 20% more DME. As LME is 80% solids, LME would actually only be 64% fermentable and therefore you would need to up the dose by around 1.5 as you said.

I would have thought it would be more like...

DME 1.25:1
LME 1.5:1