I find that using prime-tabs or carbonation drops or somesuch works very
well...if you add the requisite number just before you cap your bottles, you
get a nice uniform carbonation throughout the batch

JT
"Daniel O'Brien" <danielo@bmts.com> wrote in message
news:1091888109.584196@Virginia.BMTS.Com...[color=blue]
> Rowan Malin wrote:[color=green]
> > "Daniel O'Brien" <danielo@bmts.com> wrote in message
> > news:1091833748.330897@Virginia.BMTS.Com...
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> >>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
> >>[/color]
> >
> >
> > 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[/color][/color]
the[color=blue][color=green]
> > rest of the set up), pour it into your bottling bucket, and then rack[/color][/color]
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> > beer on top. The action of syphoning will cause everything to mix up[/color][/color]
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> > so you get equal carbonation for each bottle.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rowan
> >
> >[/color]
> Thanks for the advise, will try that...
>
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