Maple Syrup in the Secondary

[Bonestar]

Brewing a smoked porter...
Want to transfer and add a bottle of grade A maple syrup to my secondary for a week. Any experience or advice? Will it start to carbonate my beer?

 

[helibrewer]

Not sure I would add that to your secondary. Unless the secondary vessel is air tight it will not carbonate, only ferment.

Ideally you want all that fermentation to happen at the same time. Introducing a fermentable in secondary is going to kick off the yeast cycle all over again necessitating another conditioning phase (which is primarily what secondary was/is used for).

Just my .02

 

[SilverZero]

It won't carb unless it's under pressure. It will get the yeast going again, so you'll basically be restarting fermentation, getting another krauesen, and upping your ABV, so I would think that's better in primary.

 

[Bonestar]

What about adding it to the corney with the chilled beer for serving?

 

[SilverZero]

That would probably work. There are going to be yeast in the beer, and they'll find the sugar and start fermenting. Keeping the beer cold will prevent this, so if you're wanting the syrup to stay as sugar, then yes, chill the yeast into a coma first.