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Date: 05 Jun 2006 10:16:40
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Bottling Sugar
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I skipped bottling and went straight to kegging. Now I want
to bottle from a secondary. It's 5 gallons of 5% Cream Ale.
It was in a primary for 6 days and has been in a secondary
for two days.
This is for my friends who drink Anerican swill - so it needs
to be well-carbonated.
When should I add the sugar?
How much "cane" sugar should I use?
Should I still it gently?
I am bottling into 2-liter soda bottles. Can I get away with
just adding a certain amount of sugar to each bottle?
Dick
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Date: 06 Jun 2006 01:37:17
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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Final Answer:
I am going to bottle 8 liters and keg the rest. I'm going
to boil 4 fl oz of water, add 4 Tbsp of sugar, and split it
amongst the four 2-L bottles.
Anyone see a problem with this?
Dick
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Date: 06 Jun 2006 15:07:56
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:37:17 -0000, <rdadams@smart.net > wrote:
> Final Answer:
> I am going to bottle 8 liters and keg the rest. I'm going
> to boil 4 fl oz of water, add 4 Tbsp of sugar, and split it
> amongst the four 2-L bottles.
>
> Anyone see a problem with this?
I'd boil enough sugar for the 8 liters, add it all at once, and then
bottle into individual 2L bottles. The priming level should be more
consistent that way. However, you can boil it up and then carefully
measure out 1/4 of the priming solution into each bottle if you'd prefer.
John.
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Date: 05 Jun 2006 13:23:22
From: Richard Kaszeta
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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"Dick Adams" <rdadamsii@aol.com > writes:
> I am bottling into 2-liter soda bottles. Can I get away with
> just adding a certain amount of sugar to each bottle?
You can, but I highly recommend doing this carefully, since it's easy
to get the level of sugar to vary from one bottle to the next.
I occasionally cheat by adding sugar to my bottles, but when I do
that, I'm using sugar pellets (and even these aren't ideal, they have
more of an infection risk).
--
Richard W Kaszeta
rich@kaszeta.org
http://www.kaszeta.org/rich
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Date: 05 Jun 2006 17:56:08
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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On 5 Jun 2006 10:16:40 -0700, <rdadamsii@aol.com > wrote:
> I skipped bottling and went straight to kegging. Now I want
> to bottle from a secondary. It's 5 gallons of 5% Cream Ale.
> It was in a primary for 6 days and has been in a secondary
> for two days.
>
> This is for my friends who drink Anerican swill - so it needs
> to be well-carbonated.
>
> When should I add the sugar?
IMO, the best method is to use a bottling bucket. Before you rack, boil
the sugar in a small amount of water to dissolve it and then put the sugar
solution into the bottom of your bucket. Then you rack the beer from the
secondary to the bucket. From there you use the spigot in the bucket
attached to a tube and/or bottling wand to fill your bottles.
If you try and bottle directly from the secondary you are going to stir up
a lot of sediment when you add the priming sugar.
> How much "cane" sugar should I use?
I think 3/4 cup is the standard amount. There are sites on the web that let
you type in things like batch size, desired volumes of CO2, plus a few other
variables and then give you an exaxt amount of priming sugar. IMO, it's
probably not necessary to be that precise. 3/4 cup should be fine, but you
can bump it up a little if you want it to be really fizzy. I would not
go higher than 1 cup because at some point your going to be making bottle
bombs.
> Should I still it gently?
If you use the method above, then racking the beer ontop of the sugar solution
should take care of the stirring. However, you can stir gently afterwards if
you really want to.
> I am bottling into 2-liter soda bottles. Can I get away with
> just adding a certain amount of sugar to each bottle?
You can, but there is a higher risk of messing something up (measuring too
much or too little in some bottles, accidentally priming a bottle twice,
etc). Generally, "batch priming" where you add all of the sugar at once
before you bottle is considered a better method than "bottle priming". The
carbonation should be a lot more consistent.
John.
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Date: 05 Jun 2006 14:20:20
From: Gerard Eberlein
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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I use my primary bucket to bottle from since ATM it's empty between batches
and an auto siphon with the bottom cap off so I get all the beer. Is this
any worse than having a bucket with a spigot? Thanx in advance.
Gerard
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Date: 05 Jun 2006 18:27:30
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Bottling Sugar
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:20:20 -0400, <dormouse@charter.net > wrote:
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> I use my primary bucket to bottle from since ATM it's empty between batches
> and an auto siphon with the bottom cap off so I get all the beer. Is this
> any worse than having a bucket with a spigot? Thanx in advance.
I don't think there's anything better or worse between bottling bucket plus
spigot versus bottling bucket plus siphon. IMO, it's a matter of which one
you find easier.
John.
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