Priming Christmas beer
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Priming Christmas beer
Hi all,I'm bottling my Christmas beer this weekend. I've been planning on using treacle,however I got some Carbonation drops today,and they look a lot like candi sugar crystals. Can I prime with the candi sugar?
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
In reality, you can prime with any form of edible sugar. And as you're inferring, it's your very last chance to make a small impact to flavour: candi sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, treacle, turbinado, sugar-in-the-raw, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, corn sugar, invert syrup, vanilla sugar...you name it.lord.president wrote:Hi all,I'm bottling my Christmas beer this weekend. I've been planning on using treacle,however I got some Carbonation drops today,and they look a lot like candi sugar crystals. Can I prime with the candi sugar?
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
I've just been headfirst in the bottle bank at Tescos,so I'm ready to go! I'll batch prime most with treacle and try a few bottles with the candi.
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
I made a Christmas beer last year and thinking on repeating the exercise but never thought about priming with molasses, will give it a crack when I get the stuff underway shortly.
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
Corn sugar is almost completely fermentable, molasses is not. You'll have to adjust the amount you use.Tensbrewer wrote:I made a Christmas beer last year and thinking on repeating the exercise but never thought about priming with molasses, will give it a crack when I get the stuff underway shortly.
I'm just here for the beer.
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
125g treacle dissolved in 250ml boiling water in bottling bucket (Well spare King Keg) and batch primed. Got bottling 23 litres down to 4 hours,now......
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
4 HOURS!!!lord.president wrote: Got bottling 23 litres down to 4 hours,now......
Blimey, that would kill me!!
It used to take me 2.5 hours, that was bad enough, changed a few things, got some extra kit and got it down to 1.5 hours for 23ltrs.
I've learnt some new tricks since so I'm hoping to get it down to an hour or less now.
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Re: Priming Christmas beer
That was complete start from washing and sterlising bottles and tubes etc to switching the kitchen light off . Oh and that new dance show and X Factor was on in the living room,so no rush!
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