First timer question.

Yakima 728
Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider Brewing Discussion Forum

Help Support Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider Brewing Discussion Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
universe

universe

Well-Known Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2008
Messages
125
Reaction score
0
Location
Courtenay, BC
I just put on an extract kit...a Beer Makers Australian Pilsner. Instructions say at bottle time, to put a tsp of sugar in each 750ml bottle. My father has been doing it for years and put the sugar in the whole batch before bottling. Any feelings on this? Thanks.

pilsnerfirst.jpg
 
Boil the sugar in a couple cups of water and add to the whole batch. It's very difficult to get the right amount in each bottle and you risk under or over carbing single bottles that way. The instructions that come with kits are notoriously bad and in this case Father knows best. :D
 
Nurmey said:
Boil the sugar in a couple cups of water and add to the whole batch. It's very difficult to get the right amount in each bottle and you risk under or over carbing single bottles that way. The instructions that come with kits are notoriously bad and in this case Father knows best. :D
Click to expand...

Awesome, thanks.
 
Put the boiled sugar water into your bottling bucket first, then rack the beer. This will mix the sugar more thoroughly.
 
fifelee said:
Put the boiled sugar water into your bottling bucket first, then rack the beer. This will mix the sugar more thoroughly.
Click to expand...

Can you explain what that means? I'm SUPER new. So you pull the beer out of the carboy into a 'bottling bucket' or food safe pail? Have the sugar in there first, leave the sediment I assume? Is that what 'rack the beer' means? Thanks.
 
You got the meaning just fine (sugar first in the bucket). Racking is just the word used to mean moving beer from one vessel to another.
 
universe said:
Can you explain what that means? I'm SUPER new. So you pull the beer out of the carboy into a 'bottling bucket' or food safe pail? Have the sugar in there first, leave the sediment I assume? Is that what 'rack the beer' means? Thanks.
Click to expand...

Yep, you got it all right.
 

Similar threads

_Keven
First time brewing how do I prime with belgian candi sugar?
Replies
4
Views
744
Jeroen79
J
jonahk
troubleshooting priming sugar error
Replies
4
Views
1K
InspectorJon
InspectorJon
H
Oops! Added too much sugar during bottling. What now?
Replies
19
Views
2K
mac_1103
mac_1103
The__Brit
First kit (Blonde) Finished, what are your tips?
Replies
10
Views
1K
Tonybrews
T
pacostagli
Simple Question - When to move into Secondary?
Replies
27
Views
3K
pacostagli
pacostagli
InkBird 300

Latest posts

Back
Top