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Addition of fermentable sugar to fully-attenuated beer, cider, mead or other beverage to produce carbonation by re-fermentation inside a sealed container, usually a bottle or keg. Requires viable yeast in suspension, either leftover from primary fermentation or added with the priming sugar.

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Experimenting, Priming Sugars

I experimented many years ago with splitting a batch and priming with corn sugar, table sugar, DME, maple syrup, honey, force carbing and a couple others I can't recall. …
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Dissolving Malt Extract for priming

I would advise against using extract for priming. There is no advantage to doing so. In fact, it's more hassle. …
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Lots of trub affecting specific gravity readings?

As to priming sugar, all you have to do is calculate the amount based on the amount of beer you have. …
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DME for priming

The other problem with priming with DME is that you don't know how fermentable DME is, so you have no way of accurately priming your beer. Sugar is tasteless, contrary to the OP, and reliable. …
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Stopping fermentation and then bottling

Using sorbate is the only way to have a chance of stropping fermentation and even that can be unreliable. If you keg rather than bottle, attempting to stop fermentation is less dangerous since a keg …
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Effect of priming with honey

Based on my experience and priming experiments I've done, honey adds no flavor when used as priming. You only add a tiny bit and it ferments out leaving no flavor behind. …
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What is the advantage of krausening?

I assume by krausening you mean priming with gyle. I've tried it and found no advantages to it whatsoever. … I've tried priming with a number of things and always come back to sugar (corn or table) as the most reliable and neutral method. …
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How can I get more consistent carbonation in bottles?

weigh your priming sugar, don't measure the volume boil it in just enough water to dissolve it for a few minutes pour that sugar syrup into your bottling bucket rack the beer onto the sugar mixture give …
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Off flavours from unsanitized priming sugar

In a word, no. What you are experiencing has another cause.
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Why less priming sugar in a mini keg?

There's a lot of debate about if you really do need to use less sugar to prime a keg. From my point of view, it's an unsettled question. I'd advise you to experiment and decide for yourself.
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