What would cause the beer in the bottling bucket to foam out of control and overflow when pouring in the priming sugar... I think priming each bottle is the safest way or what am I doing wrong... it's at 24'c when adding the sugar... Should I put the priming sugar in first and then syphon the beer on top?
Thanks
Yes.
Boil your priming sugar for a few minutes in sufficient water for it to dissolve, cool it (i.e. put a lid on the saucepan whilst you're doing the rest of the set up), pour it into your bottling bucket, and then rack the beer on top. The action of syphoning will cause everything to mix up nicely so you get equal carbonation for each bottle.
Cheers, Rowan
Thanks for the advise, will try that...
The sugar is creating nucleation sites for the CO2 from fermentation that's dissolved in the beer. Boil some water, mix the sugar in, add that to your bottling bucket, rack the beer onto it, and you're good to go.
---------->Denny
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