Spraymalt instead of sugar for priming?

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Permalink Reply by Dan on July 21, 2008 at 8:16am

I would doubt a small amount of spray malt would adversely affect the flavour, mind you there are hops in it, why did you use this anyway? run out of dextrose/sugar?

Is that hop bitterness your tasting? if so let it sit for a few weeks and it may smooth out.

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Permalink Reply by Stuart on July 22, 2008 at 8:18am

Tried spraymalt because it suggested it on the instructions as an alternative to sugar or carbonation drops, to give better body and taste.
I suspect it could be hop bitterness, so I'll leave it for another few weeks and see what happens.

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Permalink Reply by Fairlane on August 1, 2008 at 11:26am

You don't have to use sugar for priming if you don't want to.
I use the Krausening method as outlined in Papazians 'joy of homebrewing' book and, with a very small amount of tweaking have got it working prefectly. Basically you just draw off a certain volume of wort before you pitch your yeast (based on your final volume and O.G.), into a sterile container and keep it in the fridge. Ferment the beer as normal and when you go to bottle, rack the beer into a clean fermenter and mix in the wort from the fridge.

Very easy and won't cost you extra for carbonation additives...

dh

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Permalink Reply by denimglen on August 1, 2008 at 3:42pm

The hopped DME shouldn't make it more bitter as those hops weren't in the boil - unless you boiled the DME for >30 minutes to sanitise I don't think it would make a difference.

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