IAmErickson
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Hey everybody. I'm here because I made a really, really stupid mistake while kegging a very expensive Irish Whiskey Porter last night, and I hope someone can tell me I didn't just ruin the beer I've spent the past two months brewing.
Some backstory: I normally keg all my beers, but I typically just force carbonate rather than priming them with sugar. On this one, though, I wanted that traditional "alive" taste you get from conditioning, so I had a premeasured bag of priming sugar, half of which I knew needed to be added to my keg when kegging the beer.
I'm normally obsessively cautious about all things brewing, but for some stupid reason on this occassion I was rushing and not paying attention, and when I reached in for the priming sugar, I accidentally grabbed a bag of DME that was about the same size. I dumped half a pound of it into my beer before I realized what I was doing.
After about five minutes of cursing and freaking out, I calmed down enough to research it, and it *looks* like I may have pulled a Homer, and I may just end up with a somewhat overcarbonated beer, as DME can be used as priming sugar, just in greater quantities than regular corn sugar. But I've got very little experience with sugar priming in general, and no idea at all what happens in this case.
I've never screwed up anything beer related this bad, and I could really use some advice or reassurance. Anyone have any thoughts as to what I can do to fix this?
Some backstory: I normally keg all my beers, but I typically just force carbonate rather than priming them with sugar. On this one, though, I wanted that traditional "alive" taste you get from conditioning, so I had a premeasured bag of priming sugar, half of which I knew needed to be added to my keg when kegging the beer.
I'm normally obsessively cautious about all things brewing, but for some stupid reason on this occassion I was rushing and not paying attention, and when I reached in for the priming sugar, I accidentally grabbed a bag of DME that was about the same size. I dumped half a pound of it into my beer before I realized what I was doing.
After about five minutes of cursing and freaking out, I calmed down enough to research it, and it *looks* like I may have pulled a Homer, and I may just end up with a somewhat overcarbonated beer, as DME can be used as priming sugar, just in greater quantities than regular corn sugar. But I've got very little experience with sugar priming in general, and no idea at all what happens in this case.
I've never screwed up anything beer related this bad, and I could really use some advice or reassurance. Anyone have any thoughts as to what I can do to fix this?