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Hey Gang, I know that the answer is here somewhere,but I'll ask again b/c I need a quick answer. I've always bottle primed b4,but I'd like to try batch priming.I use LBK and Lil Demon for my batches.I rack into a slimline for bottling,so I need to know how much corn sugar per batch in each container. Gonna be bottling a batch on Tuesday,and need to go to LHBS to get corn sugar.Also,do you mix the sugar with water and put it in the slimeline and rack the beer onto it?Any help will be greatly apprieciated.

Don't know why I am answering this for a Steelers fan but here it is, follow the link to Screwy's site for most calculation answers.
http://www.thescrewybrewer.com/p/brewin ... mulas.html
All in fun!!!!!

Hi Randy,
I suggest using one of the many priming calculators on the net. Here's one you can use.
You don't want to stir the beer too much but if you take a bit of water to boiling, let it cool down, add the proper amount of sugar to your volume size, you can add it to the slimline and rack the beer into to and it will mix the solution up evenly. Make sure you let the mixture cool a bit before adding it to the slimline. It's usually better to add the sugar solution first so that the beer going from your fermenter to your slimline will evenly distribute the sugar.
Have fun!

First, corn sugar is a waste of money - use common table sugar. Screwy's calculator works great, make sure you enter the warmest the beer ever got.

I boil a cup of water, stirring in the sugar while the water is heating up. Well before it reaches boiling it's all dissolved, I then turn it off and cover it. Then put it into a bigger pot that holds twice as much with some ice cubes and water in it to cool. Now, go sanitize your bottles and your slimline and prepare everything, and by the time you're ready to go it will be cool enough.

Take it out of the bigger pot, wipe of the bottom and sides so now non-sanitized water drips, and pour it into the slimline, then using a hose (no siphon needed) transfer from the LBK or other fermenter into the slimline. I gently stir 1/2 way through and then before I start bottling, and then every 8 bottles or so. Probably not necessary but it's a process.

One caution is that you don't want to boil it long or you'll make candy. You may want it to dissolve and sterilizer.

Boil just long enough for the sugar to disappear. That is all you need. Be sure to gently stir. You do not want to oxygenate your beer so emphasize "gently".

Table sugar FTW!

HerbMeowing wrote:Table sugar FTW!

That's what I use for batch priming, works fine for me. For bottle priming I've used table sugar, the sugar cubes (1/2 tsp & 1 tsp sizes) along with the "fizz drops" that were included with a recipe. They all worked fine.

FWIW I boil my water and add the sugar after flame out.