How to Prime With Malt Extract
- 1). Boil two cups of water, remove from heat and add 1-1/4 cups malt extract. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Use this amount for ever five gallons of beer. For example, if brewing 10 gallons of beer, then boil four cups of water and add 2-1/2 cups malt extract.
- 2). Sanitize your bottling bucket, if you have one, with boiling water by pouring it into the bucket and swirling it around. (Better yet, sterilize the bucket ahead of time by filling with a weak bleach solution and letting it air-dry.) Pour the malt-water priming mixture into the bottom of the bucket. Siphon your beer into the bucket with as little splashing as possible. The beer will mix with the solution as it siphons. This method is not recommended, but will work in a pinch. You really should have a bottling bucket.
- 3). Add the priming mixture directly to the fermenter if you have no bottling bucket. Pour the mixture into the beer and stir it with slow, even figure-eights with a sterilized spoon. Slow movements help keep the sediment at the bottom of the fermenter, but you should still wait 60-90 minutes before bottling your beer.
- 4). Bottle your beer right after priming, using a siphon from your fermenter or the spout on your bottling bucket.
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