OK, how about when should I add the honey? Its been a week since brew day. The way I do it, is leave it in a 5 gallon bucket for a few weeks, then bottle and leave that for a few weeks. Doing it that way, when do you recommend I add the honey?
When brewing an all grain recipe, is it still necessary to use a priming sugar right before bottling?
My recipes back when doing extract brewing always had me boil priming sugar with a little water right before bottling, dumping into the bucket, stirring a little and then racking to the bottles.
Is the stirring a good idea? The more I read, I keep seeing that after the yeast has been added, you should try to avoid introducing any oxygen to the beer?
For those saying to boil honey... can you point me to some research papers or something to show why to do this?
Do not boil your honey. People will hunt you down. It's is plain stupid and there is no logical reason to do it. In fact if you're going to heat it, why not just use dextrose? It's cheaper and you'll get roughly the same result.
I know that the 3 pounds of raw honey I add at roughly 5 minutes before flame out adds a very very noticeable honey flavor that sucrose certainly could not.
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