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Bottled a batch of ale three weeks ago using bulk priming method. When there’s almost nothing left in a pale I’ve noticed that most of sugar didn’t dissolve staying at the bottom, which never happened before. I waited for three weeks, opened a bottle and, as I was expecting, it turned out absolutely flat.

So my question is would it make sense to re-bottle this batch again while adding more priming sugar or is it simply cannot be saved? Any help or advice is highly appreciated. Thanks.

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You can, sugar won't dissolve easily at low temp. Make a sugar solution first. To maximize the ratio of sugar to water - boil water then add 330 g sugar per 100 ml water. Cool down the solution and add 2 ml per bottle to get a 7 gram liquid sugar addition for priming. (7 grams was recomended below and will be about 3.3 volumes of CO2 at 70 degree storage temp). You can add up to 500 g per 100 ml but I used 330 as an example.

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  • Thanks for detailed instructions, I really appreciate it. I’ll do exactly that!
    – Yxarata
    Dec 6, 2018 at 2:41
  • No problem! Note: it's 10 ml not 1 ml for 33 g. Just noticed and corrected that.
    – mattrices
    Dec 6, 2018 at 4:05
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    You are adding (33g/660mL=) 50g/L of sugar in your beer for bottle priming ?? This is gonna blow up the bottles, usually you add around 7g/L.
    – JeanMi
    Dec 6, 2018 at 7:27
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    The process is good, but that is a very large amount of sugar per bottle it seems.
    – ophychius
    Dec 7, 2018 at 12:36
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    @JeanMi: My mistake, I've made corrections based on your comment. I generally use a calculator such as: northernbrewer.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator
    – mattrices
    Dec 9, 2018 at 2:41

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