| Re: Sugar explosion! Daniel O'Brien wrote:[color=blue]
>
> 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?[/color]
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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