Brewing Beer - when to add the priming sugar?!
Answers: I made a batch of amber ale and I followed the directions as stated. Except, I am worried that I messed up. When do I add the priming sugar? Is that after it ferments? Is it too late to add it now. I started 2 days ago. Don't I need to add sugar to make the alchohol? I haven't added any type of sugar yet.
Priming sugar is added to the beer immediately before you bottle. It is what feeds the yeast to create natural carbonation in the bottle (or keg). Boil 3/4 cup corn sugar (NOT table sugar) with about 1 cup water (to sterilize it), and add it to 5 gallons of beer once you've moved it to a bottling bucket. Mix it in, and you should be AOK.
Did the directions tell you to add priming sugar?
My b/f brews beer from a kit and just follows the instructions and it turns out.
Priming sugar is added at bottling time to carbonate the beer during bottle conditioning. When you are ready to rack the beer into your bottling bucket, first boil some water (a cup or 2 should be enough) and add your priming sugar to this. Then pour this into your bottling bucket first, then rack the brew onto the priming sugar, then bottle.