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Just a quick post, I’ve found a neat little way to prime pint bottles. Normally I try to squeeze in a half a teaspoon of dried malt extract into the bottle with inevitable sticky mess on the side of the bottle.

So next time I shall do it like this, take the malt, about 200grm for a 40 pint kit. Then mix this with water to 200ml, and boil it briefly for a few minutes to make sure it is sterilised. Leave to cool whilst you are sterilising your bottles.

Then using a syringe, I use one from my sons Collic medicine, which is good because it has a notch at 5ml. Take 5mls and squirt it into each bottle. No mess and much quicker.

This will also work well if you use honey or anything else to prime your beer.

If only you could brew at this speed. This  is cool it is a time lapse video of the fermentation stage.