Priming bottles
Posted in Techniques on August 19th, 2008Just 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.




I’ve made quite a few wines now from various kits. So far none gone bad, but from the same type of kit sometime they turn out really good sometimes they turn out just ok. Now you can make some really nice wines from even the most basic kit. I’ve had some nice results from a ‘Basic Red’ wine kit, I think they are made by brewmakers. There are a couple of things I’ve found though that make it that bit better.