Priming options. What do you use?
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TopherM
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Priming sugar, a.k.a. corn sugar, a.k.a. dextrose is certainly the easiest to dissolve, measure, and jsut generally easiest to work with, but any simple sugar will work!
Table sugar, or sucrose will work also., A bit less is used as far as I recall.
broadbill
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priming sugar
Calichusetts
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Honey...LOVE it. Just another layer of complexity to a brew and super easy
I use table sugar to prime many beers. Belgians, a few IPA, and some older American Styles from the pre prohibition days, like my 1909 Kentucky Common recipe.
I think in some beers it makes for tinier, tighter bubbles and a nice head.
For most of my other beers, English ales and others, I tend to use basic corn sugar.
You can use any fermentable for priming. I give detailed info on priming with alternative primers including fruit juice (including the link to the podcast,) and other sugars in my bottling stickey- Scroll to the lower half of this post.
I've used date palm mollasses and brown sugar before, the mollassess was a bit too intense, though other folks liked the beer. Brown is great with pumpkin ales.
Most priming calculators give the amounts for both table sugar and corn sugar.
I think in some beers it makes for tinier, tighter bubbles and a nice head.
For most of my other beers, English ales and others, I tend to use basic corn sugar.
You can use any fermentable for priming. I give detailed info on priming with alternative primers including fruit juice (including the link to the podcast,) and other sugars in my bottling stickey- Scroll to the lower half of this post.
I've used date palm mollasses and brown sugar before, the mollassess was a bit too intense, though other folks liked the beer. Brown is great with pumpkin ales.
Most priming calculators give the amounts for both table sugar and corn sugar.
