lhill80720

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I'm new to brewing and I just started fermenting an Amber Ale. Since I'm new to this, the instructions about adding the priming sugar doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling that the sugar is going to mix well if you add all the sugar at once to the bottom of the bottling bucket. Should I stir the batch to mix the sugar once it has been transfered to the bottling bucket?

twalte

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Sorry about that...had not bought from them in a while.

You could try http://www.homebrewstuff.com

vhanley

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I'm no expert being fairly new to brewing myself but my understanding is that when racking to your bottling bucket the movement of the new solution is more than enough to mix the priming sugar in.

That being said, from a straight up chemistry standpoint it should be more than enough. Assuming that you created a solution with the sugar in water beforehand it should mix well enough during the racking process. From what I've gathered from the more experienced guys on this site you don't want to stir it much anyway at this point in order to prevent a lot of oxygen from getting in.

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This is exactly what I do and I have never once had an undercarbed or overcarbed bottle of beer, it is all uniform.

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vhanley

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Same here. Since you're adding your brew to the solution you've created with the priming sugar it starts mixing in to the new solution immediately.

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Revvy

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If you've boiled priming solution and are adding it to the bucket while racking the beer over, it really mixes itself better than most new brewers think it does. It's not like mixing oil and water, you're really mixing two very similar densities that want to go together.

We talk about this at least once a week on here, here's part of a discussion from before the holiday;

Just ignore the bottles for a minimum of 3-4 weeks, let them do their thing, and more than likely you'll be perfectly fine.

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