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Corny keg question

I'm new to brewing and have so far successfully made 3 different brews from kits purchased at my local brew shop (5gal).

The last 2 batches have been bottled according to the directions supplied with the kits, but I'd like to control the carbonation better so I purchased a corny keg and associated extras. My current batch has been sitting in the secondary for ~3 wks now and is ready to be bottled/kegged. Do I still use the priming sugar before putting it in the keg, and wait for a wk or two before drinking, do I skip the priming sugar, or should I have added the extra sugar during primary? I imagine that adding the little bit of sugar during the bottling step increases the alcohol concentration a bit, so I don't really want to mess up the intended flavor by skipping it.

What do you guys usually do when you're using a kit and know that you'll be kegging at the end?

Thanks for your help.

Reply to
Andy H.
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Skip the sugar and just force carb ot with your CO2 tank. Priming suagr adds a virtually undetectable amount of alcohol and no taste, so you'll never miss it. The best advice and instructions about kegging I've seen is here...

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Some will try to tell you that priming the keg produces a better quality carbonation, but that's not true. CO2 is CO2, no matter what the source. It's the amount of time you give the CO2 to go into solution in the beer that makes the difference.

------------>Denny

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Denny Conn

Reply to
Andy H.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:40:46 -0800, Denny Conn said in alt.beer.home-brewing:

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The most important things to learn when kegging are carbonation volume and balance. And the kegman site makes it easy.

It's also the nucleation sites. There's a difference in the mouth feel between large bubbles and small bubbles.

But I've never used sugar to carbonate a keg.

Reply to
Al Klein

But given the same amount of time for both force carbing and priming, there will be no difference in bubble size.

Smart man!

---------->Denny

Reply to
Denny Conn

When you run out of CO2 and can't get to the supplier, you do what you gotta do. So I primed a couple of kegs and wasn't disappointed. The first coulpe of glasses were a bit cloudy, but after that it was fine.

Reply to
Josh Button

Sure, but you're not gonna be able to dispense a lot beofre the CO2 from priming runs out...then you'll be left with flat beer you can't dispense!

----------->Denny

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Denny Conn

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