Bottling my stout

Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:53 pm

Okay so its about time to bottle....

Last night I pre-bottled one glass of my stout, because it tasted so good.

...When adding a pinch of refined sugar to the bottle the flavor really seemed to get funny. I know that the sugar will get eaten up and turned into the fizz eventually but the flavor really went twacky....

So, what I was thinking was taking some cranberry juice extract, boiling it down, then adding it to the carboy as a primer before bottling.

How would that effect my beer ???? Is that crazy or will it add a sweeter cranberry bitterness to the bottle?
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Re: Bottling my stout

Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:05 am

Dmp wrote:Okay so its about time to bottle....

Last night I pre-bottled one glass of my stout, because it tasted so good.

...When adding a pinch of refined sugar to the bottle the flavor really seemed to get funny. I know that the sugar will get eaten up and turned into the fizz eventually but the flavor really went twacky....

So, what I was thinking was taking some cranberry juice extract, boiling it down, then adding it to the carboy as a primer before bottling.

How would that effect my beer ???? Is that crazy or will it add a sweeter cranberry bitterness to the bottle?


Don't they use alcohol to make that? I know the stuff at work is highly flammable. Plus I've seen them bottling the juice and it looks like they add sugar to it

But the extract they are using commercially and what you have may be completely different
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