Priming sugar

[jeffclk]

When I started brewing, I have kegged all of my beer. I now want to
bottle about 12 to 18 beers of each batch and keg the balance. With my
receipes, I get the corn sugar for bottling. I know if I bottle all
the beer, I put all of the corn sugar in the carboy and then bottle the
beer.

My question is - If I only want to bottle some of the beer, how much
corn sugar should I put in each bottle before adding the beer?

Thanks for any help in this matter - I have around 15 bags of corn
sugar from previous batches that all went into the keg.

[hevimees]

It naturally depends of the size of the bottles you are using, but
usually 8 grams of sugar per litre of beer is a good amount.

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[mike vore]

For this I'd use some Priming Tabs. Probably a bit more costly than using any
sugar, but lots more consistent.

mike

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[Tom The Great]

IMHO,

Unless you are using accurate scales or premanufactured drops, you
might have inconsistancies from one bottle to another, with the
measure and add to each bottle method.

I would figure how much you want to add to bottles, and use a bottling
bucket, and add the necessary priming sugar to that. Once evenly
distributed, then bottle.

Just my option,

tom @ www.WorkAtHomePlans.com

[hevimees]

I agree with Tom. Especially if you have a bottling bucket with a scale
that tells you how much beer you have in it, it's very easy to do it
this way.

[jrprice]

In article <hevimee...@usenet.brewtank.com>,
hevimee...@usenet.brewtank.com says...

Agree as well. Never have understood this "prime each bottle" approach,
be it priming sugar or drops. Seems rife with opportunity to introduce
another inconsistency to the process. I two-stage ferment all my
batches, and use my primary as the bottling bucket to prime my batch all
at once (and uniformly) as part of the bottling cycle.

[Don JJ]

"jrprice" <jrp...@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1f4016acf...@news.houston.sbcglobal.net...

The priming tablets (e.g. PrimeTabs) are extremely
consistent, and well-suited to the "prime each bottle"
approach.

[Tom The Great]

One thing, using my primary bucket for anything other than primary
fermination scares me. I've scratched up too many. How ever, I don't
like buying bottling buckets from my home brew store, he drills the
spicket hole too high. Since I rack a few times, all my beer is clear
down to the bottom. So I get regular buckets and drill my own holes
from now on.

tom

[Jim]

I have actually taken a normal jar of honey in the past and just
squirted a rough 1/2Tablespoon in to each bottle. I did this with at
least 2 cases and never had a problem.

Jim

[Irwin Peckinloomer]

In article <jZ3Cg.10756$bo6....@bignews7.bellsouth.net>, J...@no.com
says...

Just a warning, putting any sugar into the brew at bottling time
requires boiling to sterilize it. Honey is just nasty with wild yeasts &
bacteria unless sterilized.

[Bucket Chemist]

Bucket Chemist had written this in response to
http://www.drinksforum.com/homebrewing/Priming-sugar-2918-.htm :

jeffclk wrote:

I use a level teaspoon of castor sugar for 750ml bottles and a
slightly-heaped half teaspoon for the 500ml ones.Some people warn that
this can impart a 'cidery' taste to the beer but that's never been my
experience.
Pellets may be a bit more accurate quantity-wise but are not very
economical in the short or long run.

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[alhiem]

On Nov 13, 7:16 pm, stoogesbhuja_at_yahoo_dot_com_dot...@foo.com
(Bucket Chemist) wrote:
> Bucket Chemist had written this in response tohttp://www.drinksforum.com/homebrewing/Priming-sugar-2918-.htm :

All i can say is this: http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html?13044439#tag
This is a calculator. Assuming that you want to bottle 12-12oz
bottles and taking for granted that you may leave like a 1oz gap to
the top, that will be something like 12*11oz= 132oz or 1.03125 US
Gallons. Drop in those numbers into the calculator and you get 0.68
oz corn sugar for the whole bottling volume. That would achieve 2
volumes at 75F, my typical bottling temp.

That little calculator has so far predicted my carbonation and i
intend to use it the day i decide to keg too.

Albert.

[ther_ri...@hotmail.com]

I only bottle, and would advise against adding sugar to the bottles, if you
get too much they burst.
The better way to do it would be to take a sauce pan and put about 1/8th cup
of sugar and a cup of water to the boil, and after all sugar is dissolved ad
the entire amount to the amount of beer you want to bottle and stir gently
before bottling. Papazian covers this nicely in his book.

Cheers

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[Beam Me Up Scotty]

The simple way for only a few bottles would seem to be with priming
pellets, the little corn sugar tabs that they sell for priming the
bottles. I keep some on hand.

Emergency case if you have none would be left over corn sugar or honey
3/4 to 1 and 1/4 cup for 5gal. You do the math. 1gal= 128oz 1/5cup
sugar and so on 32oz.... 12oz

google "conversions"

[PJ]

I never had and problems adding a slightly rounded tea-spoon (5mL) of
sugar (in my case, raw sugar) to my 750mL bottles. I used to use a
kitchen funnel in order to make sure I didn't spill any sugar when
pouring it into the bottle.

750 mL = 25.360517 US fluid ounces

Just ensure you ferment the Wort fully flat first.

I also made a practice of tipping my bottles a few times in the first
week to ensure the sugar was mixed evenly throughout the bottled brew.
Since you're using corn sugar, it should dissolve fairly evenly, but I'd
still tip my bottles 2-4 times in the first week.