amount of priming sugar

what is the amount of sugar used when kegging. I read somewhere that you use less then when bottling. if you are treating the keg like a large bottle why would it be different.

I don't want to force carb, but also don't want to find out that my beer is flat after all that effort.

1 cup DME is what I've heard.

Half the amount of bottling. I use 5 ounces for bottling, 2.5 ounces for kegs. I don't know why but that's the way I learned and it's worked for the last few years.

Right...1/2 of the bottling priming amount...

Nurmey said:

Half the amount of bottling. I use 5 ounces for bottling, 2.5 ounces for kegs. I don't know why but that's the way I learned and it's worked for the last few years.

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Do you just put the suger in to the beer or do you have to boil it?

Mustangj said:

Do you just put the suger in to the beer or do you have to boil it?

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Boil it up with a couple cups of water and toss it in the keg before I rack the beer into it.

I've used the same amount, bottling or kegging. never seemed to be to carbed at all. that and i used one cup of water to boil the sugar. all though i do want to try with some dme, heard its better.

is there a difference in the taste between DME and the sugar for the kegging?

Dominator6 said:

is there a difference in the taste between DME and the sugar for the kegging?

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only if your anl:cross:

Dominator6 said:

is there a difference in the taste between DME and the sugar for the kegging?

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debatable but Ill say no

this c02 thing is killing me. It pisses me off that I have to buy a "new" co2 cylinder and have it exchanged for a POS. ARGG