desmo

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I currently have a honey wheat in the secondary. As has been mentioned on here before, most of the honey flavor has fermented out. I have heard it sugested the use of honey to prime would help w/ this but have not heard of any firsthand results or amounts to use for 5 gal. Any help would be appriciated.

Bsquared

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Ive used it several times, It works great. I forget how much honey I used for a 5gal batch, and I don't have my note book handy. Off the top of my head I think I used 8oz honey for a 5gal batch. But there is a section in the Joy of Home brewing about different priming sugar sources and the amounts to be used.

If you feel so Inclined, I used Leather wood honey from Tasmania, it is a little hard to find an fairly expensive, but its vary unique flavor is great with lightly hopped beers.

DeadYetiBrew

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I had to use honey while bottling my Cream Ale. I used 12 tbsp (i think). It's roughly 5.36 oz of honey to bottle. I'm not sure if it was weight or FL oz that measurement was suppose to be so i said what the hell let's assume it's FL oz.

That means 5.36 oz = 10.72 or 11 tbsp... I said to hell with it and put in 12... it carbed nicely in the first week... no bottle bombs either...

desmo

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Thanks for the info. This is my 8th batch but the first to use honey.

SayWhat1

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The Complete Joy says half a cup of honey for 5 gallons to carb it up and Palmer says 4.7 oz(weight) for a five gallon batch.... I'm not sure how those two compare but there ya go.

I've got a honey porter in the secondary right now that I'm thinking about primeing with honey just to give it a little more of the honey taste.

Alamo_Beer

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http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator

use the carbonation sections....i'm pretty sure it has honey listed

DeadYetiBrew

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To be more specific

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html

desmo

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This is great, Thanks!.

sirsloop

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I'd be careful with the amount of honey you use in a brew. It has a tendency to coat your mouth and add sharp alcohol flavors...

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