Another Priming question

[ADDLED]

I should know better by now, but i've searched the mo'fo'rum and cant find an answer.
I never bottle but ive promised a few mates (and Jim) some bottles of my beer, so i need to get my head around the bottle priming thing.
Usually I tip a half teaspoon of sugar into each 500ml bottle now I have a baggie of spraymalt and a little syringe, and i was thinking to boil up some spray solution and inject the bottles. Whats the ratio of spraymalt to water i need please?
thanks to you in advance.
ADD

[OldSpeckledBadger]

Use sugar - it's a lot easier and the beer will taste the same.

[ADDLED]

tks mate. will do, sounds much less hassle

[booldawg]

I was advised to not do the syringe thing as its easier to simply boil and cool your sugar solution and gently stir it in to the FV just before bottling. About 70g of sugar dissolved into about 150ml of beer/treated water is about average for a 23L brew.

Unless of course you're not wanting to bottle the whole batch.

[quiff]

I'm assuming that Addled only wants to bottle a certain amount of his brew and keg the rest so batch priming is probably more trouble than it's worth.
It kinda depends upon what type of beer it is. If it is an ale or stout it's probably not hugely necessary to prime at all as there will, more than likely, be enough unfermented fermentables left in the beer to sufficiently prime to the levels required (providing a: you don't like your ale as fizzy as Irn-bru, b: it hasn't been sat in secondary for a long time, and c: you don't leave a great amount of head room in the bottles).
If it's a lager then obviously priming is more important. I'm guessing it's an ale though.
I would go with the half teaspoon in the bottles as you originally thought. This will take the uncertainty out of the equation without overpriming and giving you too much gas in your pint. The varyiing amounts of sugar you get in each bottle is fairly negligable with that amount and certainly not detectable.

[crookedeyeboy]

Ive got TOO much fizz now!
AG#3 which tastes amazing (TTL) was really good in an ale kinda way up until last week. Now its as fizzy as Mr & Mrs McFizz on a fizzy outing in Mcfizzville!!!
Not a bad thing you understand, its just that it has detracted from the flavour a little as you are too busy either getting the bubbles out of your nose or burping!

My own fault really they have sat in an ambient environment (the lounge) for too long. Stuck them in the garage now.
This was with about, from what I can remember, either a hlaf teaspoon of castor sugar or a full teaspoon...I only use a quarter now to make sure they dont turn in to gushers...

[quiff]

Out of interest do you use level teaspoon/halfteaspoon or just a scooped spoonfull?

[dave-o]

Here's the way i do it:

-Sterilise a measuring jug, spoon and syringe
-Add the sugar (or whatever) to the jug (i use 100g of dextrose)
-Top the jug up to the 460ml mark with boiling water (assuming 23l of beer)
-Stir until dissolved
-Draw up 10ml of sugar solution into the syringe for a 500ml bottle and squirt it into the bottle (obviously adjust depending on bottle size - 2ml per 100ml)
-Fill bottle with beer
-Cap

[crookedeyeboy]

I use a level measuring spoon from the cooking cupboard.

I know it is seen as a very 'primitive' method, as described in another thread, to add sugar to the bottle but by george its so bloody easy and faff free.
To me the more contact you have with touching things and having to sterilise more and more equipment is just upping the chances of an infection somewhere along the process...

[Zapp Brannigan]

My method is as follows:

I dissolve the required amount of sugar in 500-750ml of boiled water.

I then put this solution into a fermenter fitted with a bottling cane, and rack the beer from my secondary on top, which mixes it in.

I then simply bottle the beer.

ZB

[Kev75]

This was with about, from what I can remember, either a hlaf teaspoon of castor sugar or a full teaspoon...I only use a quarter now to make sure they dont turn in to gushers...

Yep - been there done that, wrung the t-shirt out that I used to mop the floor up with from the last gusher I had.
If you stop and ask do I put 1/2 a teaspoon in or a whole one the answer is "less is best".

Regards

KD