Tue, 01/17/2012 - 22:25 — dforge888
We are due to bottle our licorice/coffee stout (extract) any day now, and are planning on adding dextrin for body to the bottles, along with the carbonation pills, and we were wondering on how best to do so. I may be mistaken but, I believe I've read a few things online which said we need to figure out the correct ratio of priming sugar to dextrin for our beer, boil together and then rack with the beer in a bottling bucket to mix, and then continue to bottle. Should we use the same process with the pills? Would we add more or less pills than the usual 4 that is suggested, and should we plan to boil the total number of pills for the batch with the dextrin to dissolve them and then continue to bottle, or just add the pills to the bottle, boil the dextrin by itself and rack it with the beer to mix and bottle as usual? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! Dan
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The carbonation pills are little strange. They always seem like a good idea, but the execution seems to leave something to be desired. (They seem to take longer to dissolve and carbonate basically) I also don't see the amount used being affected by the dextrin
On the dextrin side of the q, boil it in a little water and mix into the beer in your bottling bucket as if it were sugar syrup.