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I've seen couple different methods of adding priming sugar to beer prior to bottling. Anything from adding sugar to each bottle separately, to boiling sugar in water and adding it to bottling bucket before racking the beer.
This is what I did for my first batch.
I really didn't believe that sugar would be evenly distributed in 5 gallons of beer.
So I did a small experiment. I prepared my bottling bucket and added the boiled sugar that I coloured with some red water colour (kids paints). I racked 5 gallons of clear water over it.
And guess what?
At first 5 minutes after racking, I had very uneven distribution, the sugar was at the bottom half of the batch. Very small amount of it was in the upper half of the batch. After 15 minutes, it all went down to lower 1/4 of the batch, sedimenting on the bottom.
Since my bottling session lasts for more then 1 hour, it is obvious that first bottles will be over carbonated while last bottles will be under carbonated.
I emphasize that my sugar was completely dissolved, which means that it was liquid after boiling....
So I don't see a different way to make it right, but stiring it gently untill it's all evenly distributed! What do you guys think?
This is what I did for my first batch.
I really didn't believe that sugar would be evenly distributed in 5 gallons of beer.
So I did a small experiment. I prepared my bottling bucket and added the boiled sugar that I coloured with some red water colour (kids paints). I racked 5 gallons of clear water over it.
And guess what?
At first 5 minutes after racking, I had very uneven distribution, the sugar was at the bottom half of the batch. Very small amount of it was in the upper half of the batch. After 15 minutes, it all went down to lower 1/4 of the batch, sedimenting on the bottom.
Since my bottling session lasts for more then 1 hour, it is obvious that first bottles will be over carbonated while last bottles will be under carbonated.
I emphasize that my sugar was completely dissolved, which means that it was liquid after boiling....
So I don't see a different way to make it right, but stiring it gently untill it's all evenly distributed! What do you guys think?