Priming With DME and Aging

[Thirsty Mallard]

I'm supposed to bottle my Pumpkin Ale today, and I just found out I'm out of priming sugar.

I know I can use some DME, but I how will that affect the aging? It would seem that if you use corn sugar, it is pretty neutral and once the beer is carbonated, it shouldn't contribute anything else. I would think that if you use DME, it would carbonate like normally, and then probably take another week or so to properly age and meld the flavors from the added DME.

Thoughts?

I want to have this beer ready to drink by Christmas.

Side thought... honey ferments out completely... would it maybe be a better alternative than DME for quick carbonation?

[Bugeater]

DME is less fermentable than corn sugar so you would have to use more. You can get by with boiling up some regular table sugar in the same amounts as corn sugar. Honey will also work, but it will add a bit of flavor. I don't know the amounts of that to use.

Wayne

[BDawg]

Thirsty, you can bottle with table sugar and I promise you nobody will know the difference in a pumpkin or other spiced beer like that.
DME tends to add a another week or 2 onto carbonation time and your bottles might not be carbed up by Christmas.