StarCityBrewMaster
Well-Known Member
Yesterday me and some buddies put our first batch into bottles! It was an English Brown Ale and and smelled amazing.
I boiled the priming sugar (about 1oz/gallon) for five minutes, then tossed it straight into the bottling bucket. I read the directions and it said nothing about letting it cool. This didn't seem right so I grabbed a book and scanned the section real quick on bottling and nothing was said there about letting it cool. At that point I went ahead and racked the beer into the bucket.
This morning I was cleaning everything up and picked up my AHB directions (which are different then the one used yesterday) and found that it recommended I cool the sugar down to 80 degrees.
Can there be negative effects from the way I did this? I hope I didn't come this far to kill the yeas with boiling sugar water. Insight appreciated.
I boiled the priming sugar (about 1oz/gallon) for five minutes, then tossed it straight into the bottling bucket. I read the directions and it said nothing about letting it cool. This didn't seem right so I grabbed a book and scanned the section real quick on bottling and nothing was said there about letting it cool. At that point I went ahead and racked the beer into the bucket.
This morning I was cleaning everything up and picked up my AHB directions (which are different then the one used yesterday) and found that it recommended I cool the sugar down to 80 degrees.
Can there be negative effects from the way I did this? I hope I didn't come this far to kill the yeas with boiling sugar water. Insight appreciated.