Confused (barons)

[SIXTO]

I was just reading the directions for my hightest. I am a little confused about stage 3 step 2. Prepare your priming syrup by dissolving the sugar in 500 ml of boiling water. Where do I get my priming syrup and what is it?


Very Very new to making beer. This is my first batch..

 

[Wade E]

Corn Sugar! George sells it as I would imagine any beer or wine making
supply store would. You could probably even get it from your grocery
store.

 

[Dean]

Yup, corn sugar in boiling water creates "Priming syrup". Corn sugar is easily eaten by the yeast and is used to carbonate the beer in the bottle.

 

[SIXTO]

Thanks guys

 

[Wade E]

Corn sugar is also used to prime sparkling wine and that is the only
reason I knew that answer, but I will be starting a beer kit as soon as
it warms up. I just bought 1 bought 1. Can you use the primary buckets
used for wine or should I go out and get 2 buckets and just use these
for beer?

 

[masta]

You need a different primary since you will never get the hop smell out of the plastic. Even though most beer kits and batches are 5 gallons and a 6.5 gal will work I strongly suggest gettinga 7.9 gal primary with a spigot since the extra head space is needed for stirring and foaming and the spigot makes the racking to glass a breezelike with wine.

 

[ScubaDon]

My input is just that, My input but,
I always put a teaspoon of priming suger directly into each drybottle using a funnel before bottling beer. I have never had a problem at all with proper carbonation. Pop a top and hear it pop and even see a little blue smoke. Best beer in town.
but,
Always keep my wine making equipment seperate from my beer making equipment. All of it!

 

[Wade E]

Thanks guys.The brew kits come with two plastic buckets, is this okay
or should I buy them seperately to get the glass secondary.

 

[docbee]

usually those kits come with 6.5 gal buckets. One with a lid for your primary and the other with a spigot as your bottling bucket. I haven't had any problems using the 6.5 gal buckets for the primary. I have not used the one with the spigot because when I am racking after the primary fermentation I want to get as much volume as possible into the secondary and I seem to be able to accomplish this with my autosiphon rather than using the spigot in the bucket.


It would be better to have a glass carboy for your secondary. the bottling bucket I have used with both beer and wine since neither stays in the bucket that long no odors are found in that bucket. I also have found that soaking my beer primaries with the sanatizer strenght K Meta over night with 1 gal in the bucket the odors are almost completely gone.Edited by: docbee

 

[Wade E]

Thanks doc!

 

[SIXTO]

I just looked at my sticky label of my high test and it says 04010805


Is this too old?

 

[OldWino1]

Is there a receipe for priming syrup made from Karo white corn syrup? Just asking a question just an OldWine maker.