Recent content by bingkean

Hmm, thanks for the information. I actually read the first couple of pages of that bottling thread before I posted here. There is a lot of great info there too. However, I did not see much about my question. A couple of you had a little info on sugar, but I don't understand what the...

Hi, I have heard that corn sugar is the best choice for priming sugar when bottling. I know that corn sugar and high fructose corn syrup are two different things, but there is a corn syrup that would work for priming sugar right? It just seems to me like it would really dissolve into water...

Yes, but say I am opening it up with a little force all the way around so that only the edges are flared and there is no bend in the top or center of the cap. Then, it should work right?

Is it possible? It seems to me like it would be, but I'm pretty new and probably did not completely think it through. However, I cannot really think of any reason why I could not reuse caps if I just made sure they were clean and sanitized and fit back on a new bottle securely. What am I...

Ah thanks for the quick responses everyone. I'm just gonna get another can of malt extract from the store. They aren't too expensive anyway, and I'd like him to have better tasting beer early on in his brewing career.

Do you think this would make 6 gallons of beer if I added a kg of sugar?

I guess this is not a beginner question, but I haven't brewed in a while, so I feel like a beginner. I probably never really got much further than a beginner stage, but I felt like I was comfortable with what I was doing. Anyway, funny situation here. A friend of mine bought a brew kit that...