2nd time around and it appears to be a success!!

Das Mueller · 11-21-2007, 09:40 PM

After having a few techniques in the art of all grain brewing revealed to us. My brewing buddy and myself made our my our second and third batches of beer...t'was his 3rd time...he had the pleasure of attending a group brew session, I on the other hand had to work...either way, we decided to make an American Wheat Ale, and if you read my post "Good God What Have We Done" you would know that we could only get better at what we're trying to pursue. The brew was a terribly huge improvement, we picked a perfect night weather wise. Either way the beer looks really good and is now fermenting just as it should....Cannot wait to finally get it in a glass and hopefully bask in my own glory for the next few weeks thereafter.

only question I have is, What is the exact procedure for using priming sugar....I don't really know if you just add the sugar or if you have to add the sugar into water and boil it until it carmalizes into syrup and then add it....any help on the matter would, as always, be greatly appreciated.

**Joker** · 11-21-2007, 09:45 PM

There are calculators for the amount but 1 cup sugar to 1 cup water is usually pretty close. Boil the sugar in water, cool to yeast pitching temp (don't wanna kill them) add the sugar water to bottling bucket. Be sure it mixes well.

**bradsul** · 11-21-2007, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Das Mueller

...only question I have is, What is the exact procedure for using priming sugar....I don't really know if you just add the sugar or if you have to add the sugar into water and boil it until it carmalizes into syrup and then add it....any help on the matter would, as always, be greatly appreciated.

You don't want to caramelize it, just boil it long enough to sterilize (5-10 minutes). Personally I never bother to cool it, I just dump it into my bottling bucket and rack the beer on top. The small amount of yeast that is killed while that small amount of hot liquid mixes with beer is minimal and doesn't make any difference in my experience.