mainebeerman
Member
Hello all...great site here thats help me quite a bit so far.
Still new at this hobby of mine, I have been doing the 5 gal thing since spring and have done a Honey porter, honey irish stout, coffee bock, honey octoberfest and in the bucket at this time a strawberry-rhubarb ipa.
They have all been pretty good so far and i like using honey to kick them up a notch. I used kits that i modified a bit with the first 4 but for the S-R ipa i grew the fruit and used a light malt extract and crushed pale ale malt grains, fuggles leaf hops and some pellets and the requisit honey. Its got a ruddy brown color and taste pretty good so far. I have had to double rack it as it was cloudier than my prior batches.
Now I'd like to bottle it but dont know what to use for priming, i'd like to use either a malk extract or honey but am afraid of putting too much in creating the infamous "bottle rocket" I could go buy some priming suger but i'd rather not use that if i can avoid it. Do any of you out there know how much honey or malt to use for priming?
thanks in advance,
Steve
Still new at this hobby of mine, I have been doing the 5 gal thing since spring and have done a Honey porter, honey irish stout, coffee bock, honey octoberfest and in the bucket at this time a strawberry-rhubarb ipa.
They have all been pretty good so far and i like using honey to kick them up a notch. I used kits that i modified a bit with the first 4 but for the S-R ipa i grew the fruit and used a light malt extract and crushed pale ale malt grains, fuggles leaf hops and some pellets and the requisit honey. Its got a ruddy brown color and taste pretty good so far. I have had to double rack it as it was cloudier than my prior batches.
Now I'd like to bottle it but dont know what to use for priming, i'd like to use either a malk extract or honey but am afraid of putting too much in creating the infamous "bottle rocket" I could go buy some priming suger but i'd rather not use that if i can avoid it. Do any of you out there know how much honey or malt to use for priming?
thanks in advance,
Steve