the sugar question post!

[Dizavin]

okay, so here we go:

for priming bottles, is there a ratio that's a good guideline to stick to? (you know, for every X milliliters of beer, use X amount of sugar. or something of that nature?)

and also, I'm about a week into fermenting my first ale, and having that carboy in my apartment doing it's thing makes me think... could one substitute the sugar for something else that the yeast could eat and get the same results from? like honey or flavored or infused simple syrups?

any insight would be great!

 

[cslewisster]

How to Brew - By John Palmer - Priming Solutions

John Palmer has a graph in his book.

 

[Revvy]

I found an old old post giving ratios for different sugars, and put it in my bottling tip threads.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/1114892-post81.html

 

[Pappers_]

Hi Dizavin - A general rule of thumb is 2/3 cup of cane sugar (table sugar) for five gallons of beer. Boil the 2/3 cup of sugar in 2 cups of water.

As for substitutes, you can use corn sugar (which is sometimes called priming sugar and available at most local homebrew stores) or dried malt extract. I don't know about honey or other carriers of sugar.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Dizavin]

Revvy! thank you!

wow.. now that I know fermenting with Honey is possible? I'm going to have to break out some math and my next batch will be a honey ale... with real honey!

 

[llazy_llama]

As opposed to the less popular honey ale... with real live bees!

Seriously, don't buy that one.

 

[jgln]

okay, so here we go:

for priming bottles, is there a ratio that's a good guideline to stick to? (you know, for every X milliliters of beer, use X amount of sugar. or something of that nature?)

and also, I'm about a week into fermenting my first ale, and having that carboy in my apartment doing it's thing makes me think... could one substitute the sugar for something else that the yeast could eat and get the same results from? like honey or flavored or infused simple syrups?

any insight would be great!

milliliters? you want to talk milliliters? milliliters? you want to talk milliliters?

Sorry a bad football/beer commercial reference. I just thought talking milliliters was interesting.

 

[Dizavin]

milliliters? you want to talk milliliters? milliliters? you want to talk milliliters?

Sorry a bad football/beer commercial reference. I just thought talking milliliters was interesting.

haha, yeah. I'm from canada. you know, Metric System and whatnot.

 

[Dizavin]

As opposed to the less popular honey ale... with real live bees!

Seriously, don't buy that one.

I imagine there's a market for that. people buy mexican brews that have chili's in them, so I would bet that there's some naive, upscale suburbanites that would pay premium for a honey ale that had a bee in it for "authenticity".